More farmers with too much time on their hands

And here I thought corn mazes and crop circles were amazing.

whatever happened to good old fashioned cattle mutilations?

Funny, perhaps, but the actual issue about American farmers, is what leeches they are.

Every year, farmers spend as much time, if not more, trying to figure out how they can job government subsidies as they do worrying about crop yield.

As for Willie Neslon's "Farm Aid," please give me a break.

There were not and are not "family farms" in America.

There may be agro-conglomerates owned by a single family, but no one in those families are driving a combine or milking cows.

Yes there are small single family farms but virtually none of them are able to farm full time, and if they could their contribution to our nation's agro demands is infintesimal.

American farmers, today, count on subsidized crop insurance and government subsidies to contribute to their annual incomes.

And the real bullsh*t is that farmers come from America's Heartland and so cannot possibly be corrupt.

interesting.

wrong,

but interesting.

Wrong?

How so?

like that there is nothing correct in it.



know many farmers, do ya?

edit:

they do count on subsidies.

so you got one right...

Since my family owned a farm in Nebraska, and it went to my uncle when my grandfather died, I call "bullshit".


Now then, what does this have to do with rice paddies in China?

A large portion of my business is Crop Insurance.

I would wager that I have seen a hell of a lot more real life famer experiences that you you have, notwithstanding that your uncle is a farmer.

I have seen the experience of thousands of farmers...have you?

I grew up in, and live in farm country.

I serve dinner to farmers every night.

you are in insurance.

'nuff said.

(and I know nothing of Chinese rice farming, DD)

they speak no more highly of you and yours than you do of them.

kinda like the forest and trees thing...

(don't get me started on your profession's relationship to skunks, either)

think what you want, and talk down to me at your own risk...

back to rice paddies.

Wow, that puts me in my place!

Your uncle has no other means of financial support than farming?

What you or any farmer might think of the companies that keep them financially afloat is immaterial.

Clearly you don't understand the financial dynamics.

The US government is paying the lion's share of farmers' bullshit losses which means you and DrewDad are paying your share.

I am too but my annual bonus has a share of the money my company makes on Crop Insurance and so I, unlike you and the vast majority of Americans, get back some of the dollars my taxes spend on bogus farmer claims.

If you don't think farmers are jobbing the system to make money, you must have farmers that are relatives.

Oh wait, you do.

They are.

Quite a bit sensitive aren't you?

I'm not talking "down" to you anymore than you are to me, and, frankly, if I were I wouldn't find it any sort of risk at all.

Finn,

If you're so concerned about the state of farming, farmers, and the economics of farming in the US, feel free to start your own thread.