Farming is like anything else.
Consumer demand.
The consumer demands as much as possible for as little as possible.
When the consumer demands quality over price and is willing to pay for what
it takes to make quality, they'll get quality.
That is getting a good start on happening.
"Value" is being re-evaluated.
Agribiz is even starting to see the true cost of going "cheap, quick and
dirty" as it costs more and more to make burnt land produce anything worth
selling at any price.
But "tradition" is a tough nut to crack.
My Greenhouse friend is from a very long line of Illinois corn
farmers. That guy has corn meal for blood. Not long ago, the profit
margin for a "good" year growing corn was under one dollar a bushel. The
farmers barely paying the bills, towns rotting away for lack of cash. If
you don't have 1,000 acres, you'll have a part time job.
I asked him why they didn't grow something else.
"They don't know how to grow anything but corn. It's all about corn, the
equipment..everything"
Well, he is here in NC busting his buns and studying through the night,
breaking tradition, out at predawn and back around 10 PM year after year 7
days a week. Farming is his religion and it needs a new God. Gods are
tough to find and even tougher to change.
He still has a piece of a farm back in Illinois and some day he'll go
home...to teach?
He's teaching classes here at the Tech school.
Meanwhile, back at the corn row, consumer demand for Bio-Fuels has made
corn profitable again.
It takes capitol to make changes. If you don't have any, you don't make
any. Specialized machinery costs a fortune but lasts a long
time. Scrapping a useable implement is an extreme waste of hard earned
money. I see better fuel crops in the near future.
Everyone looks at the BIG farmer as a multi millionaire..and some
are. BUT, he could spend every penny in a single day changing everything
around on that scale. Bigger boats just have bigger holes when they sink.
[And..more lobbyists to try to plug them with the money we didn't demand
quality with.]
Farmers have been burning up ground for thousands of years. They would
just move on and leave it to the scrub pines to recover it enough to grow
weeds on and do the same thing there.
The legacy of the abandoned South Eastern farm tells the story,
particularly the cotton farm, now mostly in terraced forest only capable of
growing a hardwood in the past 80 or so years. The pine tree is not the
natural dominant strain.
Then, the dust bowl. [There has been only one, farmers learned something ]
Now, there's no where to move to.
If you don't "move", you die.
As bad as it is, modern farming, over all, is an improvement.
But they had better not stop.
It needs more improvement fast or they'll be moving to no-where, not all
that long from now.
The Screech Owl [my industrious freind] is probably one of the keys to
the future...moved "back East" , full circle....to start it anew.
There are MANY, doing the same, gathering momentum.
The "Old Timers" don't tend to change. They pretty much have to die off.
"New Timers" are generally studying their buttocks off looking for that
unknown way in relatively small "land labs"...a seed, almost ready to
sprout, just waiting for the current crop of farmers to wilt with age.
Look around, they're everywhere, in quiet hordes...learning, studying,
waiting, gathering.
They know how it is. You can't buck Big Daddy. He'll knock your ass down
and tell you to "suck it up". He's a tough old Buzzard.... but you do
"inherit".
..and I haven't met a single one who would buy GM suicide seeds from Monsanto.
Oh well, they'll live..making predator bugs instead of being
one. "Consumer demand"
..and Big Daddy Oil will be selling Ethanol, Bio-Diesel and manufacturing
windmills and solar cells, investing millions in research on how to stay
alive as a decentralized supply organizer and delivery infrastructure....
like they already are.
It's a good thing they have the money to do it, 'cause it's not likely that
anyone else can, anywhere close to as well.
Business makes what sells. What doesn't is scrap. [SUV Now $8,000 off the
sticker!! Seen it? That's the cost of scrap. If it sells at all, it's a
smaller loss. ]
The consumer has ALL the power.
So put your bucks together, get out there and change the world.
The new way is at your store now, in a small way.
So, Get off your whiney ass at the crack of dawn and....
Farm it!
"YOU and I" are the fertile ground of tomorrow.
If we don't buy crap, it absolutely won't be there to buy.
Period.
Then we'll be sending *pesticide free* moldy leftovers to starving kids in
China rather than encouraging them to wallow in toxic waste so they can
live a greatly improved lifestyle only 10 to a freezing shack and actually
have some swill to eat vs nothing.
If it takes all you got to make dinner, you don't spend a lot of energy
cleaning up the dirt floored kitchen.
Remember this? America was in a similar boat not that long ago. We have
a mess to clean up, but now, we can afford to clean it up. Theirs is
rockier than ours ever was.
Shoot, If a farmer depended on making noise to get something done, he'd
starve in a week, subsidy or not.
The Northern farms burned out and they went South and West while the
North industrialized.
Vermont, once 90% farmland, now 90% forest.
The Southerners went West and tried to industrialize.
The Civil War was fought to prevent the burnt out South from
industrializing.
The "South" was Unionized to the teeth 'Yankeelands' China cheaper labor
in the 60s , now gone to be Japans cheaper labor that's closer to the
market and Germanies cheaper labor while paying for those 6 week vacations
and full medical.
"Detroit Kentucky" building Saturns, Catapillers, Toyotas and Beemers.
The alternative? Fried food stamps.
China:
You can't live that way? Correct.
They can't either.
In China, they just shoot moaners and groaners to save them the trouble of
starving.
They aren't doing what they're doing the way they're doing it ... because
they want to.
Here, the CEOs that screw up get fined, there, they get dead by their own
hand. They don't care???
If they do anything to scare us away from that market, they are
TOAST. They care.
Sh*t happens. Deceptive Scumbag suppliers out for a quick yuan exist,
there and here and a recall is a nightmare of losses anywhere.
You don't just get laid off over there, you get laid in a ditch if you
can't work. That sweatshop is a lot warmer than a ditch.
So what is the balance?
Export jobs we can *maybe* afford to whine about losing while we demand
cheap goods, or millions upon millions of starving strangers losing their
lives for sure, wading in waste.... for a while?
Somewhere in between?
It's OUR spending habits that decide.
..and their *reproduction* habits that decided that our spending habits
have that power.
More and more children can't push grandmas wheelchair through the crowds
of more and more children.
Hey. The Commies tore down that wall to eat the lead free paint off the
other side. Fillet of Graffiti ?...well, it sounds like Giraffe,
sorta. Hunger makes ones ears ring funny and eyes go whacky. They saw tall
dinner peaking over the top?
Beats eatin lead.
Iraq will wind up with another Saddam. Consumer demand.
Ode
What's with all the grizzly murders! Maybe bears should get gun permits too.
Hop springs infernal. [Br'er Rabbit ]
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