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Originally Posted by wheelsup  My grandparents were farmers and lived in poverty from the day they were born to the day they died. They owned several hundred acres (not a lot, I know) and grew primarily corn and soybeans.
Farmers are some of the most hard working people on this planet. The (little) money they received went right back into their farm and community, vs. the money that crackheads get for unemployment and welfare buying drugs and alcohol.
Like tony said, it's the big time farms that are the big scams, not the small time farmers. |
Right there w/ ya on that one. Like you, my Grandparents have a 100+ acre farm in PA w/ corn being the prime commodity. It's sad they work so hard for so little.
But yet we continue to 'develop' farm land (because that's where the money is at) to put up parking lots (ala housing projects and Wal-marts). We are going to be very sad when there is no more farm land and we're importing our food from Russia and China.
