“One of the best ways to describe the current rural atmosphere is something akin to a gold rush — I’ve never seen anything like this — especially with the oil influence,†Lane County grain grower Vance Ehmke told Associated Press. But it’s not just increased oil drilling that is raising the fortunes of rural Kansas. So are high commodity prices. As a result, AP reported, farmland values are up about 20 percent from last year; farmers are making more capital investments, which also helps the rural economy; and there are high loan repayment rates, which is freeing up more money for farm loans.
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Perhaps now the farmers will get of the government dime.
Corporate welfare queens are the worst.
Wake up, Brownlee…we have no farm bill.
Good thing the Democrat Majority Congress just passed a $300 BILLION Farm Bill.
Oh Shery, the Dems screwed up on a technicality, but they will get it fixed and pass it again.
Democrats – For Welfare For The RICH!
Actually, that’s how the DemoRats buy votes – voting for free money for almost everybody.
You know, the money comes from the money trees.
Remember folks, there’s still $5 Trillion left to take.
National Income – $9 Trillion
Federal Taxes – $3 Trillion
State/Local Taxes – $1 Trillion
$5 Trillion of the Peoples Money is Left to Spend!
……………..max, you’re just another angry reichwinger. Get over it.
When you can’t argue the facts Apophis, just call somebody a name.
What are you 5 years old?
There is no argument to have max………..you hate the fact that the govenment levies taxes for the common good of our citizens, yet you reap the reward of those taxes (roads, police protection, fire protection, emergency medical services etc….). Around here, we call people like your “hypocrites”. You are angry about entitlements, you subscribe to the republic/fascist party world view………..put two and two together………..
I find that when a progressive like myself points out the “truths” to someone of your political leaning, we are labeled “name-callers”.
Grow up max.
Oedipus,
For a ‘teacher’ you demonstrate very shallow understanding. You say;
“…..you hate the fact that the govenment levies taxes for the common good of our citizens, yet you reap the reward of those taxes (roads, police protection, fire protection, emergency medical services etc….).”
Not so, you are wrong AGAIN, and it’s government, not govenment by the way. Is that the kind of spelling you teach?
Conservatives, and I think I can speak for Max as well as myself, are not opposed to ‘reasonable’ taxes that benefit the “common good of our citizens” like roads, police, fire protection, etc. What we “hate” is the blatant redistribution of wealth from earners to those wanting a free ride and willing to vote for those candidates that will promise that to ‘buy’ their votes. We also object to having our tax dollars spent on the abysmal quality of teacher you represent, and with such blatant political leanings teaching and influencing our children.
We’ve seen this all play out before, crops go up, farmers leverage to the hilt based on high crop and land values, crops go down; Foreclosure Man comes to town!
Phantom, I’ve been saying for some time now that this reminds me of 1979, when prices and land were high. And we all know what followed.
Auctions on the courthouse steps in the eighties.
And failing banks and businesses who were left on the hook by bankrupt farmers and ag businesses.
The long term forcast is that if this harvest holds, we will rebuild world stocks by 30 billion metric tons. That’s a good thing for world food supplies.
For the farmers? Not so much.
Besides, most of the farmers I know sold their wheat in the $6 range. They didnt have my luxury of waiting for higher prices.
Input costs such at fertilizer, seed, equipment, diesel, and as noted, land, have overall tripled since last year. And the livestock folks havent benefited the way grain farmers have. The consensus among SERIOUS farmers, not just the hangers on, is that they are overall shuffling more dollars, but their net hasnt really changed. And that means they are ALL at greater risk with every crop.
You wont see the problem until it fully develops next year. And if the prices dont hold, this harvest doesnt come through locally, or it isnt a good crop next year, well, you know the rest. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
I have one neighbor who is thinking about selling all the land he owns and keeping just his rental ground. I think he’s got the right idea.
Ms. Grrl, are you going to get blown away (by the storms) again today? If so, hunker down and know that we’ll be praying for ya’.
Thanks Clark. I dont think we are in much danger. Famous last words. I’m not as afraid of weather as I should be. Whatever.
In the words of John Prine, if a tornado is on it’s way I’ll just “send my mouth way down south and kiss my ass goodbye!
But please dont bury me, down in that cold cold ground. No I’d rather have ‘em cut me up and pass me all around. Throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes.
And the deaf can take both my ears if they dont mind the size!”
God I love that man…
Tiahrt voted against the farm bill because it reduced/eliminated subsidies for corporate and rich farmers. It also happened to increase the amount in food assistance for the poor who are being hurt more by the rising food costs. Good ol’ Tiahrt, looking out for the rich agribusiness and working overtime to stomp on the poor.
Hee hee hee heeeeee….
And then Mr. Peabody’s coal train can haul me away!
But…my flag decal wont get me into heaven anymore:(
…………….boxtop, whenever you say I am WRONG, it definately means I was CORRECT.
A sigb of an anal rententive mind is an obsession for an occasional misspelled word. If that’s all you have in your life, well that’s your problem.
This is the part I really love………………
“We also object to having our tax dollars spent on the abysmal quality of teacher you represent, and with such blatant political leanings teaching and influencing our children.”
You know NOTHING about me or my teaching ability, absolutely nothing.
Cry all day and night about “redistribution of wealth”, it won’t do any good. The taxes on the wealthy will soon increase and rightfully so. The reichwing goal of establishing a permanent “under-class” will fail.
Your problems with farm subsidies, repubs, should be directed toward corporate farms. Small, family farms are far from rolling in dough from subsidies. Those that are left, that is.
Add global climate change into the mix, and we’ll all be lucky to get a loaf of bread or box of cereal (cookies, cake, pies and all the rest) for a decent price. Farm prices stayed steady (and low) for decades. When the price of bread and such went up, it sure wasn’t putting any more money in the pockets of farmers. Those prices stayed at 1940’s level for a long, long time, while the price of production went up and up.
Spot in, “Predestined,” when you posted –
“When the price of bread and such went up, it sure wasn’t putting any more money in the pockets of farmers.”
And that’s one of the incredible ironies of the agricultural economy. So many non-farmers are making all the profits in agriculture, whether from ethanol or food processing, or commodities traders. And farmers just keep on buying into boom-or-bust cycles without ever getting a clue.
Wheat prices go up so farmers plant fencepost to fencepost, glut the market, and the price goes down. Corn prices go up, so farmers plant fencepost to fencepost, glut the market, so the price goes down.
In 1996, Pat Robertson strutted around Kansas taking credit for the “Freedom to Farm” Bill, which front-loaded subsidies just in time for election day. By the time the meaningful revisions of “FtF” kicked in (i.e., reduced subsidies) outfits such as Cargill and Archer-Daniels-Midland bought all sorts of subsidies (”market”-driven, mind you) so they could jack up corn prices and get subsidies for ethanol, while jacking up feed prices and passing the “cost” of corn for flakes and fructose syrup (we certainly could never import low-price sugar from CUBA!!!! could we?)
There’s still a tidy multi-million-dollar subsidy for alpaca goat farmers. Why? Because during the Korean War alpaca was needed for soldiers’ winter uniforms. All those Cons who bitch about “government” cheese don’t realize the cheese exists only because dairy farmers’ subsidies.
America’s Agriculture policies are clear evidence that the free market does not work. Farmers are used to the boom-and-bust cycles, just like oil producers and war profiteers.
Uhm.
“Pat Robertson” = “Pat Roberts”
Same diff, in a lot of ways.
“Cry all day and night about “redistribution of wealth”, it won’t do any good. The taxes on the wealthy will soon increase and rightfully so. The reichwing goal of establishing a permanent “under-class” will fail.”
Nope…your ideas will fail, as they always have, you petty little communist.
What tickles me is years from now you will be scrapping by at the near bottom of society still bitter because someone else has more. Ha!
Don’t worry you can spend your old age in a home paid for by Medicaid.
Your own deserved punishment.
…..sorry to dissapoint you boxtop, I’m not a communist and I have my retirement well thought out and funded.
You see, that’s where you reichwingers error in your logic……………a great many of us who subscribe to the left of fascism actually have a clue as to how to manage our money. Of course this is unlike the deficit spenders who lay claim to your party.
“a great many of us who subscribe to the left of fascism actually have a clue as to how to manage our money.”
Oh, you make me laugh…at you, not with you.
Then “manage” your money and get your thieving hands off of others, that they have worked for.
If in fact you have been sensible enough to save for the future, which I doubt adequately, I hope the folks like you, yet to come along, will come and lay hands on what you have and give to someone who didn’t save anything. Maybe the scales will fall out of your eyes then.
You see Oedipus, you are living on others earned dollars that have been taken from them. You have a very distorted selfish view, a parasites view.
Oh I realize we very much want and need good teachers, notice I said ‘good teachers’, my wife is one, but she’s not a thieving socialist and her student’s parents voluntarily spend the funds for education out of their personal pocket, as well as paying the taxes to keep your worthless metabolism going without any compensation for paying their own way.
Apophis,
The reason I get down on you so hard is because you represent an extreme socialist agenda in my opinion. And, of course you are in a position as a teacher to be of great benefit to, or very harmful to, young minds.
But you are not simply an agenda, you are a person, and you are right when you say “You know NOTHING about me or my teaching ability, absolutely nothing”. I know only what I’ve read here, but that certainly alarms me.
I’m not patronizing you when I say that if you would like to shed some light on what you think, and what you are trying to do as you teach I would be very interested and just maybe my opinion would change. But if not, I must assume my opinion is correct based on what you post.
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