The Last Harvest...
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Topic: The Last Harvest...
Posted By: JC-WI
Subject: The Last Harvest...
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2019 at 10:42pm
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Watched this... http://www.fox9.com/video/630237" rel="nofollow - http://www.fox9.com/video/630237 Wonder what the future holds... ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
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Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2019 at 1:17am
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Excellent program. Not good news for many farmers. I can't see it improving until things change.
------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: Brad in WA
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2019 at 5:11am
| Pretty much tells it like it is,makes you wonder what's next....... |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2019 at 9:30am
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JC, Thanks, Sad! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2019 at 10:57am
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Yes, sad... and it does not hit on many other contributing factors either. ------------- He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that." |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2019 at 11:30am
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It is sad. Machine costs, fuel, the gamble on seed and weather, the gamble many times on personal health, the children do not want to work this hard or this long where they continue to leave these family farms and Corporations buy them up. Gone are the Huge gardens that were sold at local stores and markets, going too the lower cost feeder animals one could buy and fatten up to slaughter for the freezer, gone are small elevators that once dotted the lands for Huge grain buyers working on a few pennies a bushel where they tag farmers for huge losses against dust, dirt, foreign organics, old low test grains but still sell them at the going High Retail pricing. My Great Aunt and Uncle's farm is almost gone, their only daughter still alive but well into her nineties, she passes and my Cousins will sell it off and likely to a Corporate owner the machines already gone. My Grandmother's Best Friend in life, Mrs. Mary Peyton Meyer, an outspoken very loving person passed several years back, her old farm cut up to almost nothing now. She had been on the Tonight show for her attitude!! Her plot sits aside my own Grandparents. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-06-12-0806111329-story.html" rel="nofollow - https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-06-12-0806111329-story.html |
Posted By: JayIN
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2019 at 4:40pm
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I watched it. Thanks for posting. Reminds me of '81 when I started. Not much good on the horizon, I am afraid. ------------- sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?" |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2019 at 10:46pm
Yes, a sad state for all the farmers trying to make a go of it. Trump is trying to help, but the rest of the political machine isn't doing anything. ESPECIALLY our own idiot Ron Kind, who has been promising farmers for almost 20 years that he is going to do something about milk prices. All he has done is keep getting re-elected. ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
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