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This hurts.
POTUS. Not interested in hand outs. Want only a fair shot. It's hard, really hard for US farmers right now, but, to be reasonable, when everyone else was suffering 5 years ago, we were doing ok. It's our turn. Corruption causes this. Fake $$$ causes this.
https:// www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/06/why-are-americas-farmers-killing-themselves-in-record-numbers
I'd love to raise grass fed non gmo beef. but i can't sell it to you. I can't afford the faculties to overcome the regulations. I cant' sell non gmo cattle through normal channels cause they can't keep it separated from teh gmo stuff.
yup, and 30 years ago our family held hundreds of acres out of production, got paid for it by tax dollars so supply could be reduced. We hated it, but we were forced to do it. If you didn't you couldn't sell what you did raise.
yea, I don't agree with this idea at all. It's a socialist program in the middle of a capitalist society. If the markets were real, it wouldn't have to be this way.
its a good thought, but price matters to the consumer too. cheap is all they see, and I can't stay in business doing it that way. Even the premium that quality demands just won't cut it.
yea, you have to, nobody wants to work anymore. its a hellofa situation.
Yup. we are. City folk might start seeing it soon, food prices will go up. It already is. How much does a loaf of bread cost you? Know this 72 loaves per bushel of wheat. this ratio never changes. Current market price for me at the local elevator, $3.98 / bushel. 60 lbs. just right at break even, maybe a few cents low if fuel prices keep rising.
actually that's not going to work today.
hitting the top of the market almost every time is required. then take that $$ and roll it into some financial instrument that will return more than raising crops will, then take that profit and roll it back into the farm. That's how the successful guys are doing it.
nods in agreement.
sorry it 'has to be that way' but good on ya for doing it!
so this board knows, teh reason for GMO, as sold to the farmer/producer.
Efficiency:
If I plant gmo (roundup ready) corn / soy. Then I can use my sprayer at 40 acres/hour killing weeds as opposed to non gmo stuff, which will require 2 operations at 20 feet wide and 4 miles per hour. Add to that, gmo varieties will yield 20-40 bushels per acre higher given the same conditions over non gmo. Those numbers today, mean in business next year vs not in business.