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Feeding The World,
Thomas Malthus might have had
a good idea back in 1798 when he
published his famous theory of
population growth. “Population
tends to increase faster than the
supply of goods necessary for
existence,” he said. It seemed to
work for England and most of the
known world of that time, and still
applies to some parts of the world
like China and India and Ethiopia
even today. But Malthus didn’t
know anything about plant and
animal genetics, or chemical
fertilizers.
The American Continent was
still largely an unknown quantity,
and the American farmer was still
cutting his milk teeth. I wonder
what he would think if he were
reincarnated today, in Lancaster
County?
A few years back, when all the
political stops were pulled out and
we were going to feed the hungry
world, the Malthusian Theory was
something to be laughed at. When
the price is right, food supplies can
be increased, industry can be
financed, and prosperity will
continue on a fast roll.
The problem is, we Americans,
who were the inspiration for the
whole world in producing all kinds
and abundance of goods, forgot
that others also wanted to get in on
the gravy. They found that they
could borrow our technology, and
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satisfactory prices. All the other
competing countries like Ger
many, Australia, Brazil and
Argentina are trying to protect
theirs also. We play by our rules
and they play by theirs, making it
a lopsided game. We cut back
while they fill in the gaps.
None of this is really new. It has
been going on for a long time. It
may continue, in a cycle of up’s
and down’s, for years to come.
The answers to the present farm
crisis will continue to be a band aid
application by Congressional
action, transfusions of money in
the form of loans or subsidies,
occasional tragedies like weather,
war, or other woes that affect some
part of the world. Meanwhile,
some fanners will' prosper while
Mmthus In Reverse Others quit the farm for some other
line of work. Maybe it’s time to
also the money to make it work for inject some of our great farm
them. It only took a few years to tradition of hard work and honest
literally flood the world with food dealing into the rest of the
and all kinds of consumer goodies, economy anyway.
There are always two or three Thomas Malthus might reverse
suppliers for every consumer. So his theory if he were alive today. It
prices plummet well below the cost might read, “The food supply
of production. The Third world that tends to increase faster than the
borrowed our technology and the population of the world can eat it.”
money to finance it is now selling Of course, you and I know that it’s
instead of buying, while those that more a problem of distribution
still can’t produce food can’t afford
to pay for it either.
For the past 50 years Congress
has tried repeatedly to control
farm surpluses. How? By limiting
acreages, (Soil bank. Conservation
reserve, PK, allottments). By
slaughtering pigs in the 19305. By
the Dairy Opportunity program.
By setting quotas, and by the whole
herd buyout.
Not one of them ever worked.
Why? Smart farmers put the rock
pile in the soil bank, fertilized the
better fields liberally, slaughtered
the culls and fed and bred the best
better, bought and farmed the
same land that their neighbors had
been paid to abandon. With the
result that farm production IN-
CREASED! We keep repeating the
same mistakes because it is
politically expedient.
Since food is a world business,
not just ours, it is very hard if not
downright impossible to control
our USA production and maintain
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