I'm not a commercial farmer but I am a landowner. I see one single problem across all industries in our economy. Government is favoring and supporting the largest business over small and medium ones. There should be a sliding scale of tax breaks and support programs favoring the smallest so that the largest get little or no support from the Government. The goal should be to increase competition in all industries by elevating more players. Competition made us great. We now seem to have an anti-competition bias. "Go big or go home" seems to be the current philosophy. Just my .02c.

Wow, Pete, you were at almost 1,000 subscribers 16 months ago, and as of now you are at 154,000. This says something about you and Hillary and how we feel about you. You provide a lot of value. Thank you for that.

"Subsidies" is welfare for people with lobbying power. The words are interchangeable.

At their most basic level many of these programs can trace their roots to the new deal programs of the great depression. Between the depression and the dust bowl many farms couldn't survive and if enough failed the food supply would be endangered. At the same time, also at a basic level people around the world were rising against governments because they were hungry and angry at the government. Farms can't be started and stopped like other industries they need to operate year round, they need to plant in the spring in order to harvest in the fall, so the simplest solution was to make sure all farmers always had enough money to scrape by. We all saw last year during the worst of the pandemic how people still panic when store shelves are empty, so farmers got record subsidy payments in 2020 to help them stay operating. The government knows that throwing money at all farms and throwing away spoiled food is better for the stability of the country than running the risk of empty store shelves. As a 4th generation dairy farmer milking 100 cows I hate the fact that the government sets the minimum milk price which the milk company then pays me and I need state and government payments to then be able to make a living, but I fear at this point the system is so broken it can't be changed.

We'd all be better off with smaller government, on sooooo many levels.

Crazy to see this a year later and have you say you're hoping to get a thousand subscribers - when you now have close to 100k! Love these videos and how practical, nuanced, and funny they often are.

Great video. My father used to rant about the same thing. I know you like jokes… So, how did the farmer double his income? He put up a second mailbox 😂😂

Good rant, interesting to hear how your subsidies work. I’m an Aussie farmer, we don’t get subsidies, we get tax breaks mainly, and also we get farm management deposits. FMDs mean we can put say $100000, away in the bank if we have a good year without having it counted as taxable income. If we have a below average year the next year, we can take it out and it becomes taxable income. So just a tax deferral, but very helpful.

You see it all through this covic19 scair by the mom and pop store having to close but walmart can stay open, I think it should be the other way around

We are brand new farmers starting a regenerative farm from scratch. I've been researching gov programs that could help support our startup. So far everything has so many strings attached I'm scared to apply, and forget going certified organic. I agree completely with you on that controlling program. It seems like everything is designed to either control you or push you towards debt.

A small farm does not stand a chance now. And you are 100% correct The USDA is rooted firmly behind the coop farming industries.

I live in a rural area of Wisconsin, and I have heard farmers brag about the farm subsidies (welfare) checks. For hundreds of thousands of dollars! Yet hate people on welfare! I've done work for farmers that they're subsidies payed for! And I can't help but wonder where's my free money? The days of feeling sorry for farmers are over!

I have always felt that way about these programs. They create dependancy on government, it's just like big pharma creating an addict.

I just bought 15 acres in Missouri to start a small family farm. I subscribed to your channel because I feel that I can learn a lot from listening to you. Thank you for your efforts.

Not only is it Welfare; it's corporate Welfare! 96% of subsidies go to corporate farmers.

Discovered your channel a week ago and I'm addicted. Your presenting is amazing and it just makes me feel good, watching you. thank you. Love seeing you go up subs by thousands, too.

You were close to a thousand subscribers two years ago. Now you're at a quarter million. Excellent work Pete. You deserve your success

After a year subscribed to your channel I finally came back to watch your rant. As a retired farmer who was often frustrated with AFB I can agree with you totally. I accepted gov "subsidies" but never understood them and the ultimate purpose of them. Keep up the good fight.

I am a pretty small farmer. I would like to have one of the high tunnels for growing various crops. I've seen an ad that says the company's high tunnels will be paid for with a government program. So , I looked into it. And it's not true. What it is , is a program that will provide me with a government loan. Which I pay for. In return , all that I have to do is grow crops that the government tells me to grow. AND make my small farm available for unannounced inspections by the government to make certain that I am indeed doing that which I have been told to do . No thanks !! I'll make do without a high tunnel until I can afford to pay for one outright. If I see any government people approching my place , I immediately lock my barn , lock my front door and grab my shotgun ! Because they are not there to " help " me !

I just found your channel and am enjoying it ! The small farmer has been getting the short straw for a long time I'm 76 now and I haven't been on the farm since I went off to the service in 1961 . While I was in service Mom got squeezed out by The Turkey Boys and we will let it set there ! The Big Boys have all the connections for them and the small guy gets crapped on ! I wish I still had a few acres but thats not going to happen now . just dream about it and get my 8n back together ,finale go it to start again !

you nailed it square on the head. this "small farm, or new farmer" programs are an absolute joke

I love your channel, Pete and Hillary. I don't subscribe to many, but yours is one of them. You seem to me to be straight shooters and honest, and thoughtful business people/farmers. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for educating us on this topic. Central planning always ends in calamity.

You Sir make good videos ! You have a clear way of explaining things that I can understand. I have a few stories that I could tell that would make a few non-farmer really angry. Thank you.

I moved up here to Vermont sixteen years ago hoping to start a small farm such as yours. Unfortunately, about that time real estate prices boomed (then busted, then boomed again) The smaller, alternative farms were pushed out by endless supplies of second-home city dwellers who wanted to buy the postcard. I got work fixing up the old farms, or working on sprawling McMansions that seem like the Gilded Age ver. 2.0. I am 62 now, and gave up on the idea of farming about 10 years ago. This place has seen a lot of changes, and will continue to do so. The Midwest was settled by New England hill farmers after the soil played out in the 1830s. I will probably run some hens next year and possibly some goats to keep the bracken down, but it is good to see you persevere. As far as the subsidies are concerned, I view it as a bribe to keep agricultural industries here . Otherwise we’d be getting beef from Argentina.

Getting close to 1,000 subscribers? Man! Your subscriptions have gone up exponentially over the past few months, haven't they? Congratulations!

I am in my sixties now but remember working on my grandfather's farm and one of the chores I did was mowing fence rows, ditches, and the yard around the house. I also would mow down a field of oats that was enrolled in the CRP{?} program every year. {We used that odd sounding green gear that bothers you so much.} My grandfather explained that it was the government program that tried to control over production of crops which affected the price in the market. I was surprised the government would get involved in what I have always been taught was a free market economy, my grandfather just laughed and laughed. He said they have meddled in everything forever. One of the conclusions I came to later as an adult was that everything continuously evolves to a new level of being. That includes the family farm as much as I don't want it to. My family was a farm family for many generations and now there is none left on a farm anywhere. I read an article once that proposed that the tractor was the beginning of the end of the family farm due to the expertise of some farmers and their efficiency gave them an advantage over others. That led to the growth in the size of their farms and the demise of the not so lucky or efficient farmer. The other cause was the difficulty of making money on the farm vs a job in town for the younger generations. It is now on the level of a cultural way of life I believe and should be just as protected as any other cultural society way of life.

Used to be a farm on every 80 acres. Now there's a handful of farmer's with 4 to 5 thousand acres.

Excellent points and perspective! Please elaborate more on your perspectives on oversupply! 60% of what American farmers grow is exported today unlike in the past where we grew mostly for ourselves and exported a smaller portion. Because of this oversupply of certain commodities we keep having to find new markets compete at lower prices (depressing local prices as well). The whole system creates a race to the bottom where the US is winning but American family farms are losing, because it does them no good to be the part of a system that wins the race to the bottom of lowest prices.

In March 2020 your at 1000 subscribers and today December 12 2020 and your over 62K subscribers. Crazy growth. And for the you tube work you put in you deserve the subs. Awesome. Keep it up, I enjoy your videos.

Penalize industrial ag for ruining rural environments....take a look at what happened to Iowa family farm pork producers.

Great video Pete. I do not like the government picking the winners and losers in any industry, especially farming.The American Dream has always been based on an even playing field providing the equal opportunity for everyone. When the government starts messing with that even playing field, the whole market gets screwed up!

you're right..these programs simply delay the signaling mechanism that is the free market and removed the incentives for farmers to diversify and innovate.

Another great video! Pete, your channel is a wealth of information, not to mention, the editing and sheer quality of them. Pete, the proof is in the pudding. This channel grew 1050% from 3/19-7/1. WOW, CONGRATS!

Pete, love your ranting and I can tell it makes you feel better by getting it off your chest. Like you, I know we’re my position stands when it comes to the government. I am just a lone guy who has little impact and no power. When younger, I used to stress but I just go with the flow. I am just a speck in overall picture. No power, no control, no control. Take care my friend.

ok... great breakdown on how subsidies work against the very thing they are there for. Well laid out Pete, thanks!

I totally agree with this! Any time the government is involved, its a negative.

Well said once again, I love listening to your "rants"....you are very knowledgeable and have great logic. If only more people thought this way!

I like this rant cuz it basically holds the same feeling I have. Corn is only about 50 cents more expensive per bushel on the Chicago board of exchange the one I was trading at 25 years ago on the Mid-Am exchange. 10% of fuel put in gasoline engines in northeastern Illinois contain ethanol which is made from corn. I've been watching a few acres farm videos now for about 9 months and I could tell you the last two crops I will grow our corn and soybeans. I will only grow oats as a cover crop for alfalfa and I will grow weed if I have a bunch of weeds in the field and I'm going to plow it under for green manure. In Wisconsin Illinois Indiana Michigan Ohio, anyone who has 500 acres of no longer a family farm but a big commercial operation. You can't crab me coming at me with a thousand acres and tell me you're a family farmer. The Chicago Blackhawks and the Chicago Bears or both owned by a family but they're not considered family businesses but Major League sports entertainment teams. But playing devil's advocate: I just looked at a spreadsheet the other day which had basically the costs of raising corn and soybeans. For $22 per acre a farmer can insure $567 per acre of all its costs from direct to indirect costs meaning depreciation machinery repair and everything. It's kind of hard not to get this insurance when 5% can ensure the 100%. I'll end my comment with this: I was told by a gas station attendant in Wisconsin 5 years ago about a farmer that was so big in Wisconsin having a illegal aliens work it that he could afford to spend half the year during the world and taking safaris in Africa. Family farm my ass.

Where I live, most of the big farms would collapse with the farm subsidy payments. The small farms have pretty well disappeared. Now you have mega farms and mini farms. People with 5 to ten acres and then you have the farmers that farm thousands of acres. Most of theirs is rented, so they have no sweat equity in the land. The land here is rolling and highly erodible. When you hear people say that no till farming is not eroding the soil they are full of crap. But they rent they don't own so if it washes away and you have huge gullies then you pull out around them and let them wash and move on. The big difference is usually owners take care of the ground they own and renters could care less what could care less what happens to it. My Dad's farm was too rolling to row crop and when his health was too bad to continue with his cattle farm he tried to put his ground in one of the farm programs to take it out of production and they told him that his was not in row crop so it was not eroding enough. He told them he never let it be row cropped because it would all wash away, and they said Yes, and that is why you cannot get a subsidy for taking it out of production. Meanwhile all the farms around him were going into the CRP programs. Go Figure!

Merced County in California it’s almonds!!!! Everything is almond orchard!!! We are always in a drought here and the “farmers “ here are ripping out everything and planting almonds. Drilling more irrigation wells!! It’s really sad. You explained why very well. Thanks again Jim!!!

Nice to hear some truth about government and farming. I feel for the farmers.

We had a similar experience. We never raised corn, but the farmer who owned it before us did. Owned the land for 15 years and pastured beef. I was still getting quarterly forms for corn five years after I'd sold it. Get the government out altogether and you'll end corporate exploitation of farmland.

I remember crunching those same numbers 20 years ago. It didn’t make any sense to me then and it still doesn’t today. You are 100% on the mark.

Factory farms are killing the small to medium farm. The big ones refer to themselves as businesses not farms. We need the small farmers. We also don’t need the large slaughter houses and processors that make an obscene amount of money. Know your supplier.

You sound like Joel Salatin! His book "Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal" is eye-opening about government regulations. Keep up the good work! Perhaps the tide will turn and the small farms will be the wave of the furture.

THANKS! Great summation of ARC, I've been looking for a video like this for a while. Sounds like you are wanting more money for EQIP and CSP programs!

Agreed on subsidy for extreme weather events, especially since they will be becoming more and more common. Additionally what we really ought to be encouraging is food production, not necessarily crop production. You cant really eat field corn or soybeans without a lot of additional processing and energy investment. I will say, we have had great experiences with our local NRCS. Including a small grant for invasive plant management with our goats and reforestation to offset free loss from the emerald ash borer.

Interesting to hear you say it will never change, even though it distorts the whole picture, we thought the same way then overnight back in 87 everything changed, no more controls and interventions, subsidies, the lot all gone, couple of weeks of doom and gloom, a few, in the main who were farming the support payments went under but most came out of the adjustment better off and no one wants to go back, result some of the best farmers in the world, growing what the market wants and will pay for, even if we have to operate in markets distorted by schemes and manipulation, if New Zealand can do it you can.

It really only helps the largest corporate farms

I agree with every point you made. There is too much overproduction of corn and soybean. The environmental impact is just as terrible as the impact on farmers. Government needs to stop micromanaging the economy and focus on a sustainable long term plan, while undoing the last century of inflation.

100% agree with you. I’ve always been frustrated at commodity subsidies, ever since I learned about them in high school economics. Government has never been successful and really alleviating market fluctuations. In fact, the less the markets are centralized, the more nimble and flexible they are. Yes, farmers on an individual basis may struggle and that’s really heartbreaking but look at the devastation that we’re seeing because the government kept pushing and pushing and pushing centralization with their subsidies and encouraging of big agriculture. Now the economy is not robust at all and there’s gonna be a lot of people struggling in short order. I think this is the year of the small farm. I really hope that we the people can rally around small farmers and push Congress to get their nose out of this disaster of a project they started.

I received zero from the feds. I got a small school tax break from the local government which was to slow down the sale of farm land to developers. Otherwise they would tax my land at maximum potential value and make growing crops impossible.

Good rant.

If you take Government out of farming. The good farmers will rise and the poor farmers will have to find another way to make a living. Just like any normal business.

Wow Pete. You were just breaking 1k subscribers 18 months ago, and now have 161k. Great job. Love your content. -Ed

Another good discussion. Didn't the farm bill originally start during the dust bowl era where the SCS, now the NRCS, help for soil erosion research? Then it grew into ethanol and food stamps and all this crop insurance stuff? If you let farmers compete with each other and keep foreign commodities out by use of tariffs, then each farmer will only sell based on how efficiently they can harvest their crop. Farmers are so use to this payout that they say they need it but if the people pay by use of taxes already, I would rather pay the farmer at the supermarket than the government through taxes. And most likely, it will cheaper paying the farmer than the government. As for small vs. big farmers, we see this with stores. There are other options for the small farmer such as farm co-ops and farmer's market to help.

Well, I ran across this channel when I saw a Gehl Bale in your "the basics of bailing & storing hay" video. Poked around your videos stash & made this my second viewing on your channel. You spoke the words that a good many of the rest of us small timers have uttered in the past.... minus some foul language. :vD On that note, you have yourself a new subscriber. Thanks for the great videos & keep 'em coming! Regards! As an aside, I live on the outskirts of West Bend & recall, quite clearly, the days of driving by the storage lot across from Gehl & seeing those balers waiting to get delivered. Nowadays, that lot is now apartments for the elderly, the old factory buildings, built back in the '20s, are now gone & there are some ugly apartments being built on that property. The big blue "new" Gehl building still stands on Indiana Ave. & is now the Manitou-Gehl R&D department, resided in grey. Suppose, they did put a fountain in by the front entrance. That's saying something, I guess. ;v)

Point well taken. Although one should not rant about not making ends meet while only farming 45 acres. There are certain scales of economy that need to be achieved by any business. All successful farms have to reach this . You choose the size of farm you have and make the necessary changes to get there. On my operation it is 1200 acres. On other farms it’s 12,000 acres. But you must reach this level so you’re not doing it for nothing.

Larger farm business attract greater subsidies that help to produce cheaper junk food creating a population with metabolic syndrome that give good business to big pharma. Now covid19 is ready to solve the problem acting as a natural selection. Thanks Pete, that was a great information. In Mexico we don't get enough payments for our crops,because is cheaper importing for US. As you said, the future will be in the small farms!

I keep it simple and blame Earl Butz for how the US farm economy is structured.

Thank you Pete! Rant away my friend, rant away! 👍🏻🙏🏼✌🏼🚜

Yup I know how it works and I dont like it .( I am a small farmer )You can not really farm without the hand out but I do wish every one farming would admit this , at least to them selves ,It is no different than being on the dole funded by tax payers and most farmers hate seeing people get something for noting .

You are heard, also, thank you for speaking truth to power. Small farmers deserve fair wages!

When I was a kid we did market gardening on two acres and made a good living at it...So when life gives you lemons just make lemonade...Too many times people want the government to bail them out when they can't figure out how to think outside of the box so we the taxpayer have to bail them with some fancy farm welfare system no matter what they call it cause free money is just free money and in my book that's farm welfare

I have worked in agriculture for 80%+ of my adult life. Farming is no longer about raising food and consumables of sustenance, which by definition is agriculture. Farming is about growing currency. Only the humble would seek to be in agriculture if there was no monetary velocity to exploit. But this is the reality we live in. The coming landscape changes to our economies is going to alter these markets even further. While my recollection of $2.62 corn prices in the early 1980's is still fresh in my mind, so is our inflationary state of currency manipulation. With corn below $5.00 we have seen a doubling of price, but a larger decline in the strength of the dollar than the gains of the commodities. In the mean time while government fixes our grain prices, that same government allows the private FED to print money and raise interest rates putting the farmer farther behind by devaluing their savings. Until farmers start growing food for direct to market sales like agricultural origins, the big winners in agriculture will be those who fix the rules. Cheers.

The majority of the politicians don't know must about small farming. Like lots of subsidies they depend on the Lobbyists. I sorry I think it is wrong that a farm can get a subsidy on a crop which they don't or haven't grown in years.

If only the gov would watch this program and actually listen to reason instead of greed then maybe....arghhh!!!!

If you think about it, Mega corporations don't want to deal with alot of small businesses including farms to reduce paperwork. Big Government has more control over agriculture. If there are fewer farmers. If the farms are big, then the farms has to have to borrow money to make purchases such as for equipment. If there is always a huge surplus then food prices will be lower for consumers. Most of these groups spend alot of $$ to bribe politicians, aka: political contributions and seek regulations to prevent new competition from being able to establish and take there market share away. I am just getting started.

The Constitution, to my reading, does not allow for Federal involvement in farms. States can meddle all they want. So can counties, parishes, municipalities, villages, et cetera.

Thank you sir. This was very insightful.

Can you talk about water subsidies? I've heard the California cuz water shortages and droughts, but the agricultural water subsidies are insane. Something like paying $15 for $400 worth of water in farming? Doesn't that encourage growing crops that the locality doesn't support because of water shortages? But don't growing almonds take a crap ton of water? So why are we doing on the middle of a drought?

I agree! I feel goverment should stay out of farming... they arent very good at it along with alot of things... but Goverments whole plan is to keep cheap food cheap....

Stumbled on a old video. We're on the same page. Before your time President Eisenhower's Secretary of Agriculture had to resign because he announced the programs were going to tailored to large operations.

Wow. 45 acres isn't enough. 400 acres is marginal. I absolutely agree that the farm subsidies favor the big guys, and crop insurance should be actual insurance, not a disguised give-away. I think you have hit the nail on the head: subsidies for commodities has resulted in over-production.

So interesting to get it direct from the farmers mouth off the his farm, a uk country viewer

Love Your' work, keep it up NH

ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! PETE.

I am late to the party. However, I am concerned about foreign-owned businesses purchasing American farmland. In particular I am concerned about Chinese and Middle Eastern and/or Russian potentates/oligarchs having control of food production in this country. I totally agree with you about farm subsidies favoring the large "factory farms" (not sure if that is the right term) vs. the smaller family owned farms. The closure of family owned farms has resulted in the depopulation of many viable communities linked to farming. Full disclosure: I am not a farmer or rancher.

I admire how you reset your blood pressure , by moving around the farm.

I'm retired from farming, but i still rant right along with you. I had more acerage than you, but still was a small farmer. The small farmer and family farm can hardly survive, the 'big boys' are gov't guaranteed to not fail

best explanation i've heard yet, Pete. I need to get a Iowa Hawkeye shirt sent your way :)

Pete if you ever need to raise your blood pressure go check out the sugar subsidies and dairy is just as bad. There are no little guys in sugar, not many in dairy either.

Farm subsidies don’t help the farmer. It just makes everything more expensive. Inputs machinery land etc. Just like this green new scam that was just passed. The price of electric vehicles will go up commensurate with the amount of the subsidies so it just helps the manufacturers and not the consumer. Same goes for the solar subsidy where you can get a 30% tax credit for installing solar so all of the installers know this and build that into their pricing so the consumer pays more and the manufacturers and installers stick the extra money from the taxpayers in their pocket. It’s quite a racket.

You can't just apply if you want to. You have to have "base acres" that was established years ago.

I am a dairy farmer and I agree with most of what you are saying but I am against ANY taxpayer/government grants and handouts for all businesses.

Listen to what you are saying. My subsidies are good everybody else is not so good. Love your videos. Perhaps you need an independent organization of small family farmers.

I know this probably won’t help much, but have you looked into any of the NRCS programs like a grazing system, winter feeding facility or CSP (not crp)? Might not be for you but beginning farmers can get 90% cost share for these practices. Also your local swcd board could probably really help you read between the lines. And if you want to see change FSA has a county board of local farmers and SWCD that I already mentioned as well.

The programs are top loaded for a reason. A blueprint for collective farming. We have a bad farming neighbor. He’s a bully, and makes huge amounts of money on programs. He tries to steal peoples property, even though he has thousands of acres. I grew up on a farm, I still live on that farm.

Amen. It's welfare. It's unnecessary. Just let the markets decide the prices.

You did such a awesome job at explaining all this !! I always heard that the big farmers were the biggest welfare recipients . I sure hope get a 1000 subs . Have thought about posting your videos on Facebook ?

I think all of these things need to be more local. The state should be the highest level of government for any of the subsidies/ welfare programs. The local government knows more about the area and can be held more accountable.

Nicely done.... you deserve a ton of subscribers more power to you an honest farmer

Thankyou for this informative vidio , Saddly are government dose this paperwork for every thing and the language is not for the commen man . In today's climate in politics I can see they are not much for the regular folk . In Utah sincerely

Yep trying to get into farming and the land prices are keeping me out.

ARC is not a price floor, setting a bottom. It's a floating subsidy, with little regard to the needs of farmers, because if the 5 year history is very low, but goes up a little, then no subsidies are needed, but if it's very high, (very rare,) and goes down a little, then you supposedly need a subsidy. Since 2013, when the program was designed, corn prices have fallen dramatically, to about half, but then most farmers vast regions got no subsidies for 2017 and 2018, (paid in 2018 and 2019). Other subsidy programs are much better than that, (including Price Loss Coverage, PLC,) but they're all quite bad, and fail to address the real problem: chronic cheap prices, chronic free market failure for agriculture. So the programs actually increase risk for farmers, especially because they had to gamble between ARC, (which then failed massively,) versus PLC. Early farm programs needed no subsidies, and managed markets with price floors and supply reductions, plus price ceilings and reserve supplies, each to balance supply and demand as needed for fair prices to both farmers and consumers/industry/livestock feeders. You have plenty of advocates in Washington, including the National Family Farmers Organization and it's allies and the National Farmers Union, (which has been weak in it's advocacy on this in recent years). Both offer proposals to restore market management. We had living wage (parity) price floor programs from 1942-1952, but then Congress reduced (1953-1995) and ended the programs (1996-2023). Congress also wanted to end all subsidies by 2002, but the ending of the market management programs in 1996 failed so extremely that they passed 4 emergency farm bills in 4 years to cover it up with subsidies, and then this got put into the 2002 bill, (and has been slowly reduced in every farm bill since). This is how the small farms have mostly been run out of business. The real subsidies are to agribusiness buyers, and are paid by farmers, not taxpayers/government, via cheap prices. You need to cover agribusiness. Yes, you mention a bit of this at the end, (but no subsidies are needed with adequate market management). My playlists on farm policy explain all of this in detail, and in historical context, and with data.

It's not a rant when it's the truth. God gave man all he needed in the land and to be a steward to it.

There should not be govt programs available for crop failure, etc. Instead, the govt should go back to stockpiling commodities to hedge against catastrophic crop events. It once was designed to have minimal impact on markets. That all ended with Carter.

I can work in a factory for 40 years being responsible and saving money. 20 years to pay for my house never have a new car or fancy anything and barley have enough to survive. Then I turn 60 and get cancer, the hospital and doctors take my retirement and my home, I survive the cancer broke and homeless but my body is broke down so I can't work. This is the normal for most pepole... Now if I inherit 300 acres plus equipment this cancer fate may hit me too but I have the land to rent out or sell and I have plenty of money left over! Farmers around here complain all the time but are driving platinum 1 tons when us workers can't afford the lug nuts.

Join National Farmers Union. They have state and local chapters and support family farmers. I am not a fan of the Farm Bureau. They seem like they are an agribusiness lobby pretending to help farmers.