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Auto making, like so many other industries, started out as a backyard business with a lot of shade-tree mechanics tinkering around with old buggies trying to make them self-propelled As they succeeded and in- dustry grew, it was characterized by fewer and fewer brands. Today, in this country, we have the big three and a couple of smaller firms and some of them won’t make it into the next century. But in agriculture, things are different An economist could probably demonstrate how a few large farms, well managed and highly mechanized, would be more efficient and would in fact produce more food. On paper, that plant might look quite impressive, but in practice I don’t think it would work. And, in fact, it has no chance to work because of the millions of Americans who cling to a built-in, burning desire to farm They farm despite economic adversity and better opportunities They farm long past retirement age even though they don’t need the money because they’d rather do that than anything else. They even struggle to get into farming at a time when land prices are outrageous and farm profits are minimal. Small farmers are here to stay even though their ever expanding big farm neighbors would like to have their ground and some theorists think the farm system would work better without them. They’re here to stay because they like to farm and they’re willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stay in it. In our area farmers have the best of both worlds and maybe at the same time the worst of both. They can cling to their relatively inefficient farming activities by working off-farm jobs that are usually available within relatively easy commuting distance And while they complain about the en croachment of surburbia, they enjoy the inflated land prices caused by non-farm demand When it get right down to it, many of the small far mers are pretty much im mune to the adversities of agriculture in general Sure, they suffer in a dry year and their prosperity goes up and down with the futures market But 10 bad years in a row and you’ll still find them out there farming, getting what they can from ALPINE PLANT FOOD ALPINE OFFERS A TOP QUALITY LIQUID PLANT FOOD AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. ★ Alpine minimizes expensive handling costs by utilizing farmer distributors. if Alpine eliminates expensive computer billing costs with cash accounts. if Alpine uses food grade ingredients for maximum avail ability and safety to plants. if Alpine is a neutral PH chlorine free plant food that will not rust equipment, freeze or settle out. ★ Alpine will deliver 9-18-9 for payment in December for $2.70 a gallon. 3-18-18 delivered price $3.05. 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That’s a documented fact, and it simply means that farm families with one or more members working away from the farm and con sidering investments, savings accounts, and other sources of revenue actually earn more from those other sources than they do from the farm. Maybe that helps explain why in some of the past disastrous farm years, farmers have been able to get themselves together and go back again for another try. Some fanners do fail, and some do give up and move to town, and others retire and go to flonda, but at the same tune there is a growing list of USDA to price before calling gram reserve WASHINGTON, D.C - Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland has announced a change in the farmer - owned reserve program which will give the Secretary discretion to consider short term price aberrations before calling reserves “Until now, reserves would be called automatically if the five-day moving average price ex ceeded the call level for five consecutive days. With this change, the Secretary has the discretion not to call reserves if the daily adjusted people who would like to farm. Many of them have had no previous farm ex perience. These would-be fanners have their hopes and dreams and they’re out there scratching around trying to figure out how to get started. And I’m con vinced that some of them will make it. Big-time farming may be the dream of a lot of people in agriculture, but it’s a reality for a relative few The 5000 acre spreads are fairly rare, especially in the mid-Atlantic area, and some that do exist aren’t all that profitable There also seems to be a point of diminishing return when it comes to agriculture. A farm can’t just continue to grow and continue to be more ef ficient Maybe that growth con cept works m some other industries, but not in agriculture. So don’t expect super farms to take over in the next couple of decades. Small farmers will have to be reckoned with for years to come They may be producing a decreasing share of our food, but they’ll contmue to be an important factor in future farm policy and other rural con siderations. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see a strong resurgence of small activity during the next few years. consider average price for any of the previous five days is below the call pouit, “Bergland said. “This applies even / the five-day moving average price exceeds the call level for the required five days ” “This will give additional flexibility to avoid calling reserve loans in cases when erratic market forces push up market prices tem porarily,” Becgland said. The regulations making this change were filed with the Federal Register on the morning of December 8.
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