Dick Foster
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I'm more into the giant farms where they harvest or work 1000's of acres.
They talk about their great Grandparents and Great Grandparents who were lucky to work 100 acres a day while today they work 10 times that due to the huge jump in tech.
those types of farms are only about 60-80 yrs old,,,
I'm into the smaller stuff done by human hands than millions of dollars of tractors
Nah...I know at least two of them are over 100 years old and have been owned by the same families.
Like I was saying,they talk about how their Grandparents did it back in the day.
And they still have some of the tractors they used way back when.
Cole the Cornstar,ya it's a Corny name pun intended, has been rebuilding his Grandfathers Huge farmhouse!!
If I remember correctly it was built in 1920.
The tech and the enormity of these of these farms is what gets me.
They're by no means the poor farmer. The Larsons in particular as well as the Millennial farmer.
These people are raking in the bucks!!
of course some survived,,,but the fact is technology has caused most family farms to disappear and the ones that survived are one season away from losing everything,,,
the corp. farms are destroying everything about farming,,,
Oh I agree.
While it's sad It was bound to happen in today's world. From what I can tell all three of the farming channels I posted sell their corn to methanol plants.
They do however grow a lot of soybeans as well.
I plan on doing some small plot farming when the Wife retires and we move back to the boonies.
Maybe a couple of acres of our favorite veggies like sweetcorn, tomatoes,various peppers,maybe some watermelons and the Wife will insist on some squash....
I can definitely get into some small plot farming,the huge farms fascinate me just for the tech.
from what I'm seeing is theres a movement to find a middle ground for tech and farming that can make a return to family farms and push back against the corp. farms,,,
time will tell,,
I have 12 acres inside the city and am working to make it back into a farm,,,
Organic farming is definitely getting big.
We go to a farmers market about 30 miles from the house just for the tomatoes.
I feel sorry for todays youth who have never tasted a tomato other than what they get from the grocery store.
Same goes with yardbirds and eggs. There's just no comparison in the taste.
Yeah that frakinfood shit like the tomatoes or any piece of fruit you pick up in a grocery store today
is made of leacverite. Meaning leave it right their and let it rot into store because I won't buy the shit anymore.
I'm also done with farm subsidies. We've been paying to grow shit we don't need since the dust bowl so they invent crap like ethanol to create a phony market for the stuff. It's time to let the free market set prices and get taxpayer dollars to hell out of it. Let Midwest politicians buy their votes with their own damn money for a change.