Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Alan Whitaker <alan@dunbrokeus.com>]

It's time that food prices go up in this country.  For too long, people 
have expected cheap food and poor farmers.  For me, when I sit down and 
figure my wages from farming, I'm making less than $5/hr.  Plus, I have 
a mortgage to pay and some equipment costs.
If I try to raise eggs, to break even I need $1.50/doz. but the grocery 
store sells them on sale at .33/doz.
I milk a cow and sell raw milk.  Good milk at the store is $4.55/gal. 
now and I get dirty looks when I ask $3/gal.  My cow cost me $1200 and I 
milk by hand. I milk three goats and end up feeding their milk to the 
pigs. I raise a few hogs.  I have 5 sows and a boar.  Got 28 babies on 
the ground now.  Tried to sell them and sold one.  I've got pigs running 
out my ears..............but if the weather will cool some down here, 
I'll start eating them.
We are competing against the large corporations whom our government 
subsidizes  and we have  no way of competing  other than  taste,  and  
the concept of folks  wanting to support the  small farmer.  But higher 
food prices are long in coming,  and I  hope that they don't go down.  
American  consumers  are spoiled  rotten.
Alan Whitaker
Georgiana, AL