Blood On The Saddle

[Jim Meade / Iowa City]

Reflecing on the Roller Coaster thread and other representations of how farm finances are going south caused me to resurrect a memore of the way Tex Ritter put it.

If you replace the cowboy with the grain farmer and the bronco with the grain market, you have a pretty fair analogy for how it can be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ERitO9qeM

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[kyu2852570]

Haha. Thank god we are offered revenue insurance and the ability to lock in a profit on the futures market. The farmers that utilize these tools are running their farms like top business men and have top profits year after year