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Originally Posted by TalonTSiDude
Farmer's just like bitching about how tough life is. If you can't handle it sell your land to the large corporations. Other thing is, there are a lot of farmers out there making a ton of money and we of course never hear them bitching about things, and the last thing they'll do is go public with their large profits since then they will lose the sympathy of the average American idiot and actually have to price their items fairly.
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The thing about something like Soybean rust is that in time, it will change everyone's production methods. It doesn't matter if you're are a 350 acre farmer in NE Iowa or a 12,000 acre farmer in Kentucky or a 45,000 acre farmer in South Dakota. Selling out to large corporations as a whole will not get anywhere. Granted one can argue that by selling out to large corporations, the large size of the corporations will allow them to pursue the most high-tech treatment methods but in the end, it still effects everyone. Soybean rust is on a whole different playing field compared to the high milk price discussion we had a while back.