ASO-Lancastcr Farming, Saturday, March 29,1986
g i Brockett’s Ag Advice
. jM By John E. Brocket!
V Farm Management Agent
Lewistown Extension Office
THINK!
Farmers are inherently
ingenious people. They can usually
devise all types of things to
make work easier, do an im
possible job, or beat the system. I
wish a good farmer or two or three
would come up with a way to
painlessly help a person think
things through.
If farmers would spend as much
time and effort thinking about
financial management as they do
about developing that nifty gim
mick, there would be no farmers in
trouble.
I have always admired the
farmer who is enough of an
engineer to send ideas into farm
magazines. Many of the ideas
should be patented because they
are so practical and take quite a lot
of thought and trial and error.
If I could only find a way to
harness that tremendous
creativity. I would then throw out
all of the management stuff from
the colleges and think tanks. I
would start from scratch and get
those creative farmers to develop
a record system that was
foolproof, easy, practical, and
usable.
Then I would challenge them to
develop a system to analyze the
information from those records.
They could do it, too.
Finally, I would beg them to
come up with a way to use those
records and analysis to project
“what would happen if—” This last
item would probably cause them
the most trouble because of the
imponderables in our imperfect
society. Even so I would have
confidence that they would reach
that goal, too.
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There is nothing that farmers
cannot do if- they really put their
minds to it. That is why this
country has the best farmers in the
world.
If you are a farmer, you also
have the capability to think and
think constructively. It does not
take a college education to be a
thinker. It is not necessary to have
a PhD to be a profound thinker.
You do not have to have a lot of
spare time to be a thinker.
You do have to have the desire to
improve, to change for the better,
to make something work, or to
develop something that others
have said was impossible. All of
these things farmers have been
doing since this country of ours
was settled by free farmers who
had to “make do” with whatever
there was available.
No one ever promised those
farmers a free lunch. They made
their management decisions the
old fashioned way - they worked
them out or starved.
Would Quotas Work?
Every time we have economic
problems, some people bring up
the idea of having quotas. This
occurred back in the 50s and 60s. It
is happening again today.
Those who already have a high
base of course are the most in
favor of a quota. Unfortunately
there are a lot of questions that
would have to be answered.
• Who would own the quota
base? The individual or the farm
or the county or the state?
• Who would set the value of that
quota in the event it was sold?
• How would the base be set?
The same for everyone, historical
production for the farm or in-
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state to be divided among active
farmers.
• What about price of product?
Using cost of production or price
the market would pay or an annual
negotiated price.
• If cost of production, whose
cost would be used and what
factors should be figured into that
cost? Using an average cost of
production would mean some
people would still be operating at a
loss. Should they be subsidized? By
whom? You or general tax
revenues (which include you).
• Would anything prevent you
from being bought up by one or two
syndicates and then moved to
another area or state? It takes a
certain amount of farm business in
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there was a quota? Who would rule
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