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Whoever controls the food controls the nation.
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<blockquote data-quote="Clodhopper" data-source="post: 1387219" data-attributes="member: 24993"><p>I've said all along that Farm Bureau and the like were lobbying for the big takeovers, in the name of "we don't want to limit the family farms' ability to expand." All they have done is pave the way for vertical integration.</p><p></p><p>In the early 90's and before, our county, which is home to a lot of poor ground, nearly every farm had hogs. Heck, many guys who had a couple acres or more had a few sows to go with their full time jobs. Now there is one 600 sow independent left and a few custom feeders, and the ones I know say it's barely worth it, but what else are you gonna do with a million tied up in hog barns? It's modern serfdom.</p><p></p><p>$7.00 corn knocked probably half the cattle out of the county. There's still quite a few left, but nothing like it was twenty years ago either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clodhopper, post: 1387219, member: 24993"] I've said all along that Farm Bureau and the like were lobbying for the big takeovers, in the name of "we don't want to limit the family farms' ability to expand." All they have done is pave the way for vertical integration. In the early 90's and before, our county, which is home to a lot of poor ground, nearly every farm had hogs. Heck, many guys who had a couple acres or more had a few sows to go with their full time jobs. Now there is one 600 sow independent left and a few custom feeders, and the ones I know say it's barely worth it, but what else are you gonna do with a million tied up in hog barns? It's modern serfdom. $7.00 corn knocked probably half the cattle out of the county. There's still quite a few left, but nothing like it was twenty years ago either. [/QUOTE]
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