[hubel458]

And farmers really aren’t absolutely free to
produce on a scale they’d like, as high energy costs
have driven up their seed, fertilizer, fuel,
land, prop taxes, repairs and machinery. These
has become a huge economic barrier.During planting season 500 plus dollars a day fuel through tractors
is common, and these guys around here aren’t huge
operators either. They aren’t much further ahead than
when getting supports as costs are killing them.

And you are correct about farm programs, they were designed
to keep us in cheap food and just barely keep farms
in business.The powers to be didn’t want poor working
stiff to have to pay parity for food, as they were afraid
there’d be revolutions putting them out of office.
And hung up in a trees, or up against firing wall.
From 1950 to now if we had parity, milk would be
10-12 bucks a gallon, if you used fuel, gold,
lawyers fees, hospital costs, taxes, etc, as
benchmarks to go by. Ed

[Dan Evans]

From 1950 to now if we had parity, milk would be 10-12 bucks a gallon, if you used fuel, gold, lawyers fees, hospital costs, taxes, etc, as benchmarks to go by.

But suppose you used the price of computers, TV sets, phone calls, or airline fares as benchmarks? It's a good thing we don't have "parity" in other industries.

[Dan Evans]

During planting season 500 plus dollars a day fuel through tractors is common,

It's too bad ethanol is so darned expensive, because then you could use that.