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  • From: sunnfarm AT netscape.net
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu ("Market Farming")
  • Subject: RE: true definition of mf
  • Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 13:41:19 -0400

Let me give some advice to you rugged individualists, when the government
offers you money, TAKEIT. When I was offered 60% compensation for installing
underground irrigation mains I took it, when I was offered 50% compensation
for retooling for notill planting I took it. same for trees to protect
raparian buffer zones, manure storage and application equipment and so on and
so forth. Crop insurance?, it costs $8 an acre to gaurantee 30 bushels of
soybeans at $5.40 a bushel whether the beans grow or not and this year they
"did not". In Maryland the state will pay for your covercrop rye. Every state
has something to give to help farmers large and small we would be fools to
turn or backs on these programs, they are there for our mutual benefit, if we
don't use them the states will assume we dont need them and send taxpayers
money elsewere. I don't know where you all make most of your income nor do I
care, but I make my living from my small farm, and one lesson I have learned
is money does not come easy in this business...Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

>
>Sink or swim in the market? If you mean that literally, then you advocate
>abolition of all price supports, crop insurance, government and foundation
>research, tax breaks, and the end of all agribusiness corporations, right?
>After all, "the market" does not entail any of those things, and
>corporations are creations of government, not "the market". Is that your
>meaning? Or is it only some farmers you want to sink?

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