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You Owe Me A Living!
Supply management is rearing it's head again. See this article which focuses on dairy farmers.
Well, why not? Somebody tells me what to grow and how much to grow. They put some kind of floor on so I always get at least a minimum income. Cargill or ADM is told to buy my corn. What could be better? No stress. That would let us do away with crop insurance. In fact, maybe the government would just send me a check and I could grow or not grow as I chose.
No sense in letting the consumer decide how much to pay or what to use. What does the consumer know? It's not smart to let farmers grow as much as they want, what happens if they go broke?
Oh.
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These socialist programs go against everything America was built on. The people don't owe a business owner a living.
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Misleading headline to linked story.
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Re: You Owe Me A Living!
Black - Lets not start down that - road - the one you drove to pick up your grain trailer - public highway - - -
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K-289, yeah I drove down a public highway that I pay taxes and tolls on, paid the insane cost of plates and insurance on a semi, jumped through all the DOT and IFTA rules regs in a country that I fought for... yeah dam me.
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Just picking nits, I suppose, but how did you rationalize putting insurance in there?
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Insurance would be private - you need 50 + trucks , then you get a B T O discount break on the regs & tolls , & insurance - - -
Not sure if you checked into the grain storage financing deal I read about that included semi's - low interest - several year gov deal ?
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Bruce, its against the law to drive on a public road without insurance.... I don't believe anybody owes me a living wage. Nobody puts a gun to a farmers head and tells them they have to farm. Setting a strict cap on production would only drive up the cost of food, good for farmers, bad for the other 98% of America.
Tell me why America owes a farmer production limits so the price of food and fuel goes up?
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K-289, I did what most on this board could never do.... start from scratch. I started with 0 equipment and 35 acres I rented from family. I now farm close to 200 acres of my own corn, custom harvest for others, raise several head of beef cattle, work a full time job, and Im under 35 years old. I have no desire to have 50 trucks. I suppose the government should limit truck drivers to 3 loads a week so the price of freight can go up and every truck driver can make good money.....
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Re: You Owe Me A Living!
Missing the point B T O trucking company will enjoy financial gimmies, thru government interactions, & then relish the endowments of on stage proclaiming conservative idealism , not bestowed proportionately on our caste system - - -
Hats off to your success, although there just might a similar story or two liken to yours , I familiar with one - - -
If you review history of not so long ago , several states were clamoring to put in place dairy operations, migrating from west coast locations with local - state gubermet incentives - - -