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balestabber

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knowing that there has been alot of conversation about cattle prices/verses feed cost.
i moved from farming country to the ozark mountains of missouri/arkansas.
this year,they are planning to raise corn here,,,where it hasn't been seen in years.
The rancher's have alot of cattle,and aren't expecting record crops.they have little for row crop machinery but thinking of the options for feed.

need to figure a way to get them Subsidy and Insurance Payments off these rocks.cattle seem to adapt here better than corn when it comes to genetics. :lol:
 
Doesn't make much sense to work everyday for cattle when you can buy a guaranteed income insurance policy subsidized by RMA that will guarantee you a better income, and you only need to work a couple of days in the year planting and harvesting the corn on that pasture. If you figure your guaranteed profit potential for raising corn on you hayground, that hay is costing you $125+/ton standing, before it ever sees machinery
 
Except for the fact that we can't afford the spending and the corn subsidies need to come to an end! If New Zealand was able to eliminate their subsidies, I see no reason we can't do the same.
 
Ben H said:
Except for the fact that we can't afford the spending and the corn subsidies need to come to an end! If New Zealand was able to eliminate their subsidies, I see no reason we can't do the same.
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I agree, eliminate the corn production subsidies AND the ethanol subsidies and you would knock the price of corn in half overnight. Taxpayers are funding this whole ponzi scheme both with taxes and the imminent inflation balloon that is coming on the items they buy, just think what the price of feeder calves would be if this casino called the corn futures wasn't strangling the feedlots
 
Forgot to mention, my folks got a corn subsidy a while back on just a few acres. Last year I changed control of the land into my name at FSA. I recently received a form from them with the place for my signature highlighted for me to get a corn subsidy. Is it the producers responsibility to tell them you aren't growing corn anymore? They are automatically sending out these renewals. I wonder how much we're spending on subsidies with nothing being grown for the subsidy? Doesn't look like they're actually following up to make sure you grew the crop.

No, I'm not sending it back.
 
these country boys will survive.i look for the price of the homemade
corn alcohol to rise drasticly tho.
the price of copper is up also.
i am glad april fools is over one more year.
 

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