Ray Swindle wrote: Danpbphoto wrote:
I forgot about wheat Ray. Largest and most prolific grain in Maryland. Last year was great for my farming neighbors. But this year we have had very little rain for the Spring wheat and none for the summer wheat and soy beans if planted early. But it is a tad early yet. A few more weeks before I wake up to the sound of tractors!
Had a huge argument with my step daughter's step son who thinks farmers are subsidized too much!
He makes a 6 figure income and knows all if you get my drift.
Hope your season is plentiful and fruitful Ray!
Dan
Apparently he is not familiar with the impact from fertilizer and fuel/oil plus maintaining farm equipment and product storage and deliver cost. He probably thinks they only work when they plant and harvest. If a farmer fertilizes 7000 acres, the cost could be as much as #300,000, and that expense is not subsidized. And that is only fertilizer, it doesn't include herbicide.
Oh don't I know Ray!
I live among farmers, both green and milk/beef. To get some spare "change" during the school year, I would offer my tractor trailer class licenses and pick up from the farmers cooler and haul milk to the MDVA Milk CoOp near Laurel(60miles) during the holidays so the married drivers could stay with their families.
5 blocks "down the road" in any direction, my small hometown...you were in beef and grain/vegatable farmers! Here I have a small mini mall but all my neighbors are farmers. Suzanne&I went to elementary school with a husband/wife and Suzanne went on to high school with Mary Ann and Paul. We are still very close to them. But 1 neighbor, right behind us, sold his property 500 acres, to a developer and we will be having a "Senior Living and Townhouse, Section 8 development being built soon. Townhouses are NOW the mandated house style here. Single family homes in agri-land are a "No-No"!
I love dirt on my hands!
Dan
Apr 20, 2023 at 11:22 AM
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