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Hot Tabasco in post 32 looked him up and says that he is ‘Head of the Indiana Farmers Union’ so I would say that he is an activist farmer and likes to talk to the press.

I you talk to the press you have to have something to say and it helps if it is something that the press wants to hear.

But every farmer I ever knew always had one eye on the weather and the other on the commodities report. My granddad listened to the Farm Report on the radio every morning and part of that report was the weather report.

From the earliest writing about farming, farmers feared the weather. Bad weather could wipe a farmer out. Watch the movie ‘The Grapes of Wrath’. It is a socialist screed but it correctly depicts how weather can destroy a farm and a break a farmer.

Modern times hasn’t really changed much. Look back to the 1970s-80s and all of the farm foreclosures.

Most small farmers have a full time job besides working their farm.

Most will have equity loans to buy their seed, fertilizer and pesticides in the spring and pay off the loans when they sell their crop in the fall.

If they don’t buy crop insurance and the crop fails, they are hurting. Some don’t buy insurance because they can’t afford it.

Farmers are on a thin margin, so yes, they fear the weather and always have.

But farmers are also political like everyone else so some of them are going to believe the AGW propaganda.