Posted on 08/29/2011 8:34:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
Perhaps the farmers in that area should have been growing crops suited to the climate and not requiring massive irrigation.
Perhaps we should all return to being hunter-gatherers.
“We’ve been trying to save the family farm for 50 years, have we gotten any closer?”
Somehow, family farms have survived, despite being helped to death.
Having grown up in a farming region...I’ll point out three things which most folks don’t grasp. First, farm families have kids who make a decision not to farm (either the risks, the lack of adventure, or just the plain vanilla nature of it)...but the kids make this decision and the family farm comes to an eventual end.
Second, after you’ve messed around with banks continually for thirty years and seen just about every trick in the book...most guys who are farmers...won’t say alot positive about the continual problems in keeping a farm above water with bank credit.
Third and final...when some guy comes up and offers you a fair amount of cash for your acreage on the main highway...to build houses...most guys are going to listen to the offer. They might still turn it down, but the idea of selling ten percent of their farm to make enough to pay off all bank loans...appeals to folks.
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I recall working in the dairy business in Florida for a while. There was a beautiful, big farm that produced high quality milk and had about 3,000 head of milking cows, aside from the calves, bulls, and dry cows. They were offered money by a developer who wanted to subdivide it into horse ranches. The community wanted them to stay. They were a major employer and part of the local economy. This was way up rural Northern Florida, and they did not care for the yankification going on further South, and wanted no part of it. But they sold off the cattle, and eventually the land, and that was that.
Jesus, that family produces some retarded losers.
Perhaps you are an anti-human agenda 21er.
A comment on something in the article.
There is raw milk cheese (cheddar, cottage) and other raw dairy products avaiable in southern Calif., anyway.
Alta Dena is one brand, Horizon is another.
There may be others.
Our kids, now in their 40’s, were raised on raw milk and other products - the milk was even delivered to the doorstep by a local dairy!
Milk consumptiom was stopped when the youngest became 12 or so. Yeah, we came to believe cow’s milk is meant for their babies, and not us. Find calcium elsewhere . . .
(One daughter has not one cavity)!
These raw products are delicious, tho. They are not foods that have been processed to heck!
(Hope the govt. peeps aren’t listening in and getting further regulation ideas).
Also, the ‘raw milk’ dairies are held to a higher standard and inspection.
And gez wot?
None of us are De-mocrats.
: )
Placemark.
Bullet train is good. Screaming nosedive is another way to describe it.
Humans were intended to improve the whole earth and make it produce.
Only those who see humans as just another in a long chain of evolutionary accidents think that we should leave the earth as it is and not “exploit” it for our own benefit.
Your view on the nature and creation of mankind IS relevant. It’s not a “side issue”, because it determines what conclusions you come to on policy affecting all of us.
To be viable, you must have at least 350 acres, stay away from large capital expenditures, have strong sons with an
interest in farming, use horse power.
Perhaps you are an anti-human agenda 21er.
OUTSTANDING RIPOSTES! Maybe I should grow papaya and mango in the Texas Hill Country. Yeah! Grow tropicals where there isn't enough water to support them! That would fix the ills of the world, or at least, I'd show'm!
Another outstanding riposte...........................give it up.
It sickening to see the constant propaganda against farming in the central valley of California. The state is the most fertile in the whole nation!
What should humans do, truck the topsoil to the rainforests where they get 70 inches of rain a year? As a gardener you of course know that you need soil water and weather for food crop production. Plenty of water falls on the central valley, but lots of rivers take it away. What on earth is wrong with storing it for later? Or do you prefer they just canal it down to Los Angeles to water the illegals?
I wonder if you have a well, a water tank or a municipal water system to water your garden. I wonder if you only grow native plants in your garden. What native texas food to you grow? Oh, and those chickens of yours don’t belong the the texas hill country either. Some farmer bred them, they ain’t native.
I plainly stated that growing crops more suitable for the area would alleviate the issue of water shortages.
You can’t be serious!
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