"Yet the farmers in the US still aren't making enough money to support themselves."
I don't know what you are talking about. Do you have ANY evidence to back this up?
My family farms for a living and I can tell you that it is a profitable business. I'm not talking about a huge mega-farm either. The total acres we own is less than 1000. We didn't grow up rich, but I never wanted for anything. Sometimes the government even pays you NOT to do anything. Being a farmer today is one of the most overlooked jobs in America. If you don't raise livestock, you basically plant your crops, watch them grow, harvest them, and then do as you please in the winter.
Any farms that are doing poorly are mostly the result of mismanagement. Since farmers don't get a steady pay check, they have to be very careful about watching where their money goes. If you buy a new $120,000 tractor and weather destroys your crops for that year, then you are hosed. We have used the same tractors for over 20 years and if you maintain them, they last a long time. That is probably a lesson that more people should heed.
America would be well served if it looked to successful farmers for advice because there are few other groups of people who can maximize their opportunities the way a farmer can.
Quit if you must, but there are several people standing in line to replace you. Now isn't the time to be whining about getting your fair share. I vote you suck it up.
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Did he ever actually ask himself if the average Joe WANTS to do this?
"Yet the farmers in the US still aren't making enough money to support themselves."
I don't know what you are talking about. Do you have ANY evidence to back this up?
My family farms for a living and I can tell you that it is a profitable business. I'm not talking about a huge mega-farm either. The total acres we own is less than 1000. We didn't grow up rich, but I never wanted for anything. Sometimes the government even pays you NOT to do anything. Being a farmer today is one of the most overlooked jobs in America. If you don't raise livestock, you basically plant your crops, watch them grow, harvest them, and then do as you please in the winter.
Any farms that are doing poorly are mostly the result of mismanagement. Since farmers don't get a steady pay check, they have to be very careful about watching where their money goes. If you buy a new $120,000 tractor and weather destroys your crops for that year, then you are hosed. We have used the same tractors for over 20 years and if you maintain them, they last a long time. That is probably a lesson that more people should heed.
America would be well served if it looked to successful farmers for advice because there are few other groups of people who can maximize their opportunities the way a farmer can.
Corporations don't pay taxes. Only people pay taxes.... think about it.
Why don't you have this documentation already? Call me crazy, but where I come from we document before we code and revise as needed.
Go to Kansas young man... Kansas offers free land to lure residents
Kill yourself
I'm still working on how to get them dried and folded.
Isn't that what your mom is for?
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How is it that people bitch about losing their jobs to overseas markets and then bitch about the government trying to keep American businesses afloat?
Quit if you must, but there are several people standing in line to replace you. Now isn't the time to be whining about getting your fair share. I vote you suck it up.