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Old 08-17-2019, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Aces4 View Post

Also, you may want to check the fat, government subsidies being handed out to farmers. Google it in each state. It’s laughable and now farmers are insuring their crops and many in this locale are cashing lovely checks because it was too wet to plant or later in the season so they filed a claim and are not hurting at all.

Farming is a whole different game than even 20 years ago.
I recall listening to my father and a friend of his talking about farming when I was a teen, 50 years ago, and they were saying exactly the same thing then as you are saying now.