Florida Cracker
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Q: What's the difference between a farmer and a puppy?
A: A puppy eventually quits whining.
You said it! H.L. Mencken wrote many tomes about their whining in the 20 s and 30s. Very powerful lobby's whine for them also, costing the taxpayers billions! One could start with the ethanol scam. A total waste of time and money, driving food prices up considerably . Probably the least most efficient way to power an internal combustion engine. It's welfare with an air conditioned combine.
I see we're sticking with the "misplaced apostrophe" theme. Oh, and "least most efficient" is a jewel too!!!
BTW. You forgot to mention Bush, Cheney or Haliburton.
Dear frustrated English teacher. Why not refute what I've stated , give us some facts instead of childish gibberish.
Dear frustrated English teacher. Why not refute what I've stated , give us some facts instead of childish gibberish.
While ENJOYING a beer made possible by farmers, Don't forget to THANK truckers
Isn't paying all these people enough?
Dear frustrated English teacher. Why not refute what I've stated , give us some facts instead of childish gibberish.
I don't quite understand why I should thank someone for participating in their chosen profession.
I don't quite understand why I should thank someone for participating in their chosen profession.
I don't quite understand why I should thank someone for participating in their chosen profession.
What's the matter?
Aren't they as intelligent and deserving as you? Oh, yeah, you think college professors are the only ones who do anything substantial....
No reason to thank firemen for their service?
No one should thank those servicing in the military?
But, well, if you are incapable of being appreciative...
No one thanked me when I invented a process to improve rates of nitrogen fixation in legumes. I didn't expect it, I was just doing my job.
There is a profound difference between someone performing their chosen profession and someone risking their well being for altruistic reasons.
No one thanked me when I invented a process to improve rates of nitrogen fixation in legumes. I didn't expect it, I was just doing my job.
Seriously, how did the apostrophes get that mucked up? It is correct on one line, wrong on another, then right, then wrong.
I love farmers. You should give them proper recognition by not making them look like uneducated idiots.
Holy misplaced apostrophes, Batman!
The bad taste some folks have regarding farm policy is that the federal crop insurance program to large degree privatizes profits while socializing farm losses. Between yield protection and revenue protection heavily subsidized by the federal government, farmers enjoy a low cost hedge that few other businesses have access to. Maybe that's good policy, maybe it's not. But please, it is disingenuous to ignore it.
If you don't believe me, compare the cost of insuring the price of commodities in the options market versus the cost of a crop insurance revenue policy. Given the choices provided for in the latest farm bill, essentially 100% of a farmer's historical crop production is insured largely at the taxpayer's expense. I for one believe this government sponsored hedge is responsible for the runup in the value of farmland and the staggering increase in the cost of farm machinery. It's a sort of "heads I win, tails you lose" sort of proposition.
Farmers should be thankful for ordinary tax payers and foreign governments that loan our government money.
And please, let's not forget that when the market doesn't want a farmer's commodity, the federal government steps up and buys it through the loan program. Yes folks, farmers can default on the loan and the federal government keeps the commodity provided as collateral with no requirement to repay the loan. The farmer is also still allowed to collect damages from his crop insurance policy. And if they're lucky, a disaster relief program will be sprinkled in. It's a great deal for those who can get it.
Finally, I don't blame the sad state of affairs on the average farmer. This is something that has morphed over the decades from the symbiotic relationship between farm lobbyists and politicians. If food stamps and farm policy are ever separated from each other, maybe things will change. A farmer (multi generation business) has no choice but to participate in this craziness if he wants to survive.
As a proud dad whose daughter just got her first job as a large animal (primarily dairy) veterinarian, we appreciate what farmers and producers go through to bring high quality food to market.
As for Father's Day, I thank Prarie Pride Farms and the Birkshire piggies who gave us their ribs. I've become a pork snob now that I've tasted Birkshire pork.
https://www.prairiepridefarm.com/product-category/berkshire-heritage-pork-ribs/
Smart girl.
If she were mine I might try to steer her towards the small animals however ...
That's where the $$$$ is.
She's actually in a mixed practice, and will do small animal as well, but was hired specifically to help primarily with the dairy practice.
She figures that 60% of her education was with small animals, and she should keep those skills sharp in the event she gets injured, pregnant, or just wants to move to small animal.
Growing, raising, mining, ad/or butchering is actual work, and a lot of risk. Desk jockeys, and armchair quarterbacks really don't get it. Don't want to get it, and couldn't even if they did.
Steingar made it plain. he wants a participation ribbon for his effort, but doesn't see the value in raising food for people, when something important like whatever he's doing is considered.
Your reading comprehension is at an all time low, though that hardly comes as a surprise. Who do you think was more important? The farmer who grows the crops, or the geneticist who alters the crop so the farmer can grow three times as much on on half the effort? FC thinks only farmers and those who do hard manual labor deserve any kind of respect. What he really doesn't understand is that our freedom is guaranteed more by the guys who design the next generation of jet fighters than the actual pilots who fly them. We it not for the former the latter would be flying pistons singles and would be massacred by all the other nations flying jets, who do value people who work with their minds and not their hands because they have more collective sense than FC, which isn't terribly much.
Steingar is VERY INSULTED that anyone would thank anyone other than him and his parasitic friends, living off the taxpayers and demanding more all the time.