With a hat tip to Kate at Small Dead Animals, today we "juxtapose".
Are farmers on a bender?
"Sales of self-propelled combines, including an $850,000 John Deere (DE) model with iPod system, navigational equipment and heated seats and an attachment that harvests the corn, jumped 40 percent in November."
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"...but we’ve found for the most part farmers are cautious by nature...”
Nothing that another massive taxpayer subsidy won't cure. There must be a few pennies left in our pockets that the government can dispense as charity.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it's just embarrassing to say that I'm a farmer.
ReplyDeleteSo you clean the cowshit off your boots before you go to town, eh? ;)
DeleteYup. And I put on my used car salesman suit just so I can get a bit of respect. :)))
DeleteLike spoilt children, exactly when have we allowed farmers to harvest the consequences of their borrow/spend behavior? 1) The government creates laws to force corn-ethanol in fuel 2) the farmer reaps the bonanza, pisses it up against the wall, and borrows more to expand acreage by bulldozing bush and cultivating set-aside lands 3) quickly produces a surplus while manufactured high grain prices kill off traditional markets (beef, pork) and 4) gov't shrinks ethanol mandate, exports decline, domestic feed use declines 5) costs spike as landlords, seed and input companies all raise prices 6) farm profits decline below the cost of production and stay there because farmers are slave to the bank. 7) farmers cry and bitch and moan on Parliament Hill because government hasn't done enough. Oh it's done enough alright. Some farmers have minded their Ps and Qs through it all. Reward them by letting the idiots fail!
ReplyDelete"Some farmers have minded their Ps and Qs through it all."
DeleteCan't be. CBC and CTV have never interviewed one farmer who wasn't a whining beggar.