Reply #40: If you think food prices are high now [View All]

[newfie11]

just wait. I am not talking about years down the road. The cost of running a tractor is not cheap. They break down, even used parts are expensive and heaven help you if you need to have someone else come out and work on one. This is not even talking about the price of off road diesel which has also skyrocketed.
Farming the amount of land that is used here in the states by horse/mule/oxen etc is not possible. Yes it used to be done but look at the population increase from the 1700/1800's to now.
Farmers had to get big to survive. No one can make a living farming a plot small enough to use animals. Sure it is possible to hobby farm but feed the country, no way. There are small farms across the country that sell to their local farmers market but do you really think they can compete with the large farms in the midwest to supply food. If those farms in the midwest stopped producing I can assure you the availability of food you have today and the price you see today would disappear rapidly.

I do not know ANY farmer dumping their crops. They can't afford to and still pay for fertilizer, gas, taxes, land payments, seeds, etc.

If you want subsides cut then many farmers will go out of business.
As I recall when the dairy farmers were dumping milk it was because it costs more to produce it than they we getting paid. How many people would stay in a job like that.

The farmers are not getting rich, talk to the middleman, who ever that is. That's who is making out.
How many here actually live on a producing farm?
And dump the IDIOTs in office NOW.