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<blockquote data-quote="farmerbyron" data-source="post: 2398294" data-attributes="member: 4953"><p>I have to lolz if you think that the farm program is there to inflate prices of food. Just look at how many fewer dairies there are in OK compared to 30 years ago. The family dairy will be extinct within a decade. Only huge dairies like Braums that control all of their inputs will be around. I do not envy dairy farmers at all and would gladly pay much more than the $4 per gallon I currently pay for milk. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Ideologically, I would love to have the farm program go away but unless you completely disband the USDA and all their market reporting, that is not a workable system. I loved the govt shutdown. The USDA market reports were not being put out and commodities were rising. The market advisors I get emails from were all in a panic over the lack of information. When the govt reopened and market reports started back, it has been a downward spiral ever since. So I am all for axing the farm program just so long as they disband the USDA altogether and give us farmers an unfettered free market for our produce. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You're right. Thing is not just anyone can up and decide that they want to be a farmer. The economics buying land, equipment, livestock, feed, and fertilizer all at the same time does not work. You pretty much have to be born into the profession. And even then, it is a tough row to hoe and make it all work out on the bottom line.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerbyron, post: 2398294, member: 4953"] I have to lolz if you think that the farm program is there to inflate prices of food. Just look at how many fewer dairies there are in OK compared to 30 years ago. The family dairy will be extinct within a decade. Only huge dairies like Braums that control all of their inputs will be around. I do not envy dairy farmers at all and would gladly pay much more than the $4 per gallon I currently pay for milk. Ideologically, I would love to have the farm program go away but unless you completely disband the USDA and all their market reporting, that is not a workable system. I loved the govt shutdown. The USDA market reports were not being put out and commodities were rising. The market advisors I get emails from were all in a panic over the lack of information. When the govt reopened and market reports started back, it has been a downward spiral ever since. So I am all for axing the farm program just so long as they disband the USDA altogether and give us farmers an unfettered free market for our produce. You're right. Thing is not just anyone can up and decide that they want to be a farmer. The economics buying land, equipment, livestock, feed, and fertilizer all at the same time does not work. You pretty much have to be born into the profession. And even then, it is a tough row to hoe and make it all work out on the bottom line. [/QUOTE]
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