--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 05/22/2013 09:32 AM, Buck wrote: > > What is going on? The cash payments along with accelerated depreciation > > schedules in the farm program. Extra cash to the guys that 'farm' the farm > > program allows them downpayment to buy more land and also get more > > equipment to shield the added tax burden [depreciation against income] of > > the free cash payment. Also the incredible benefit of Federal (free) > > subsidized crop insurance. This has gone on for decades and allowed for a > > class of farmers to get bigger all the time to the point where there are > > very few people in farming anymore. Yes, Has kept heavy industry (pick-up > > trucks and tractors) in business during hard times too. The problem is the > > free cash coming in to the system. > > Fewer landholders now and now a class of equipment owners looking for land > > to farm at the margin. That right there is driving rents crazy. Perceived > > tight rents related to supposed commodity prices are driving land prices. > > In the mean time there is an incredible amount of land that has been > > brought in to row crop right now that new acres added to row cropping. > > Planted with the new high tech incredibly high yielding seed that is way > > more productive in crop yields than just a few years ago. Average yield is > > up even in drought times of the last summers. If they get a decent year > > they will be way over-produced. Loan Payments will stumble on land, > > equipment and inputs. Land will consolidate further in to the hands of > > holding companies from outside of farming. Banks and insurance companies > > hold title to a lot of ground already and this class of equipment owning > > tenants is running around frantically trying to rent it. Even the younger > > generation X members of the Adam family hunt ground and scwabble over land > > rents to farm. It is extremely competitive. > > > > This is what is going on. It is a big deal that is a fast re-shaping in > > the landscape. Huge loss of private land owners has already happened. > > Serfs and landowners. Very few people own the land they farm in a typical > > Iowa county anymore. It is shocking and will never go back without some > > kind of revolution to allow for access to own land by people. The time of > > the corporation has come and is here now. Private ownership is really not > > possible now. The soil erosion of this big row-cropping is huge as an > > added consequent of this farming. Really a lot of soil has gone downhill. > > Most anything with slope has really thinned to clay in the last few years > > of these rains visible even to the naked eye. These land holding entities > > are sitting on thinning assets that way. It is stunning. Drive any > > direction right now and you can see it. We are getting repeated > > rain-events and have been since late winter. There is nothing on the > > landscape holding the soil right now from this kind of large scale > > mono-cropping row crop farming. Welcome to the future, > > -Buck out standing in his field > > > > > > Sounds like the future is the past. After a brief reprise of a couple > centuries the landed gentry is taking back the land from the serfs. > After all weren't they deemed by God to rule over other humans. > Obviously because they were able to accrue lots of money which God wants > them to have. > > But probably with the observed increase of CO2 the party is over for > life on earth. The future's so bright you're gonna need shades... >
Yep, and this is coming much sooner than most experts expected. We are seeing the beginnings of the changes. Do you have any dates from jyotish that seem likely for major shifts or events?
