Comments for Maximize Farmers' Share of Food Dollar at http://envirovore.com , comment 1 to 33 out of 20 comments http://envirovore.com Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:04:08 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-3949 Although to some it may feel oh-so-far-off, spring is on it's way, and here are the louis vuitton to prove it! New christian louboutin spring shoes are hitting the shelves and they are colorful, whimsical and playful, perfect for a spring or summer wedding looking for a little jolt of fun! and now discount for Gucci,Which are your faves? - Christian Louboutin Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:56:38 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-3778 Så, om du ser spelare för köp Pandora bracelets, då dig styrkan önskar att veta att exakt vad som ska sökas efter in beställa att du får en goda bearbetar med maskin. 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The linked page cites USDA stats. - Larry Martin Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:32:42 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-942 How do you figure that transportation, packagaing and energy fall under the marketing bill? Also, is it any surprise that labor takes the most? People aren\'t growing, buying, moving or selling food to get their warm fuzzies. It\'s to put food on their own table and a roof over their family\'s head. What is the source for this, anyway? I can photoshop a dollar with information, too and who knows what I could prove to you. - Matt Foster Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:36:51 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-908 My Family owns a vegetable farm in Southern Ontario. We grow Carrots and Onions, and have been for over 80 years. This past year we were making $2 a bushel (50 lbs) for onions. The cost of growing onions was around 3.5 to $4 a bushel. Yet when I went to the grocery store that was selling our freshly packed Onions the price was .69 cents for a pound. Thats $34.5 for 50 lbs or a bushel. Around $7 a bushel is paid to the packing houses that bag and process the product. It\'s pretty sad when the 3 big grocery stores are making tons of money building massive stores and on the other side of the spectrum farms are rapidly dissapearing not just because of poor managment but because we can\'t afford to put seed in the ground or fill our tractors with diesel. So what about farms, they can just get paved over with subdivisions right? Well if your local farms and food supply is wiped then you rely on imported product, that works right? Till theres a food shortage and then theres no food cause no local farms. With less money going into your local farms, the farmers have to rely on cheaper methods of growing, which turns into poorer quality crops which don\'t sell. Farms can\'t expand instead sell off land to developers, and can\'t afford to pursue more environmentally safer methods. I would love to go organic and not use commercial pesticides but if we can\'t even afford to produce conventionally how can we go in any other direction. Thats just what i think. Please buy locally grown food! Your dollars and cents go a long way into helping us grow your food - kyle Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:36:54 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-886 I grew up on a farm and my father still owns and operates a beef, hay, and corn farming business. Anyone who tells you farming is a large profit business is severely misinformed. Almost all small size farms (read under 1000 acres) scrape by. Yes ethanol has run up corn prices but that doesn\'t come close to off setting all of the other costs. We\'re talking about keeping up several barns, countless machines, and don\'t forget about taxes for all that land (yes we get a break on taxes but land = money either way). We actually had to sell off our dairy cows because the cost to feed (just the grain) was higher then the milk coming in. Don\'t forget the cost of medicines, the price of fixing a car when a cow decides to go into the road, etc. I\'ve lived in poverty all of my life and watched my grand father sell off acre after acre of land and still be over 1million in debt. Its a tougher life then most will ever know and to think of it in any other way is foolish. You can go on all day but the fact is there are less and less farms and more and more to feed, do the math. Support your local farms in anyway you can. - Lecithin Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:32:44 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-882 My aunt used to sleep with a lot of farmers and she said that their members were 400% smaller than \"average\" men. Probably not true, but I\'m just saying. Oh yeah, don\'t ever listen to unclues or people that reference middle men - words to live by. - Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:21:33 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-881 My uncle used to deliver produce to the markets in Boston. He said the middle men paid pennies on the dollar to the farmers for their produce. Basically they would mark up the price by 400% without even touching it. - Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:03:34 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-880 Shut up. You are just a stupid fat farmer. - Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:51:41 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-879 Well, I\'m a large farmer (weighing in at around 320-325 lbs.) and I take offense to Mr. Anonymous! I haven\'t stripped any farmsers - after all, I ain\'t gay or nothing! Support your local farmer market! - Large Farmer Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:50:00 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-878 [quote=adam]Well i am a commodities broker and follow this stuff everyday. Trust me, there is no need to feel sorry for the farmers now. With this whole ethanol boom they are able to sell their crop for a whole heck of a lot more. quote] While Adam the commodities broker is correct that prices are high right now and farmers are doing better than previous years, he is looking at it from a view of 20,000 feet and has no real idea of what life is like for an American farmer today. The truth is that most farmers scrape by on an income that is much less than the average income the rest of us enjoy. It is very hard for farmers to survive in today\'s market. While govt. subsidies have reduced farmer\'s risk (bad years, weather, drought), it has stripped them of their control and influence in the market. It\'s created a system where the price of food does not reflect the cost to grow it. The only way to make money now is to grow in scale and buy more land to increase the subsidy from the govt. This is driving out the small and medium sized farmers. While subsidies may have made sense in the past, there many other ways (technologies, financial products, etc..) to protect farmers that were not available in the past. What - Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:44:15 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-877 Excellent Point! All farmers should have the opportunity to greet at Wal-Mart! Unless farmers are too good to do that. On another issue, farmers plant corn all over Texas and it fails year after year. We all know they just want to get some of that govt cheese! - Greeting Farmer Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:35:29 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-876 Me too! Give me a coke and a smile. Go Farmers!! - Earthy Milk Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:30:28 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-875 I don\'t know about you, but all this talk about chips and beer is making me hungry and thirsty. Go Farmers!!! - Jimmy Dean Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:28:48 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-874 Keep in mind that $.20/LB that goes to the farmer needs to pay for all the expenses of growing that crop. It is not as simple as throwing some corn seed around and watching it grow. I grew up on a family farm producing wild rice, Pork, Beef, and the supporting crops for the animals. Making money was about as much luck as going to a casino. We usually on average would make enough to make the low-middle poverty range. The only reason I got to eat decent and not ramons noodles is that we were able to process our own meat and grow a garden. If it wasn\'t for the love of farming my Dad had, he could of made more money working as a greeter at Wal-Mart. - D Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:28:20 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-873 Can someone explain this graphic to me. 19% is listed as \"farm value.\" The next 38% is listed as \"labor.\" What exactly do these two values mean. - Mr. Feighery Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:19:58 +0100 http://envirovore.com/content/view/198/9/#comment-872 Useless as this comment is, I shall write it regardless. In response to the above commont about government subsidies, farmers do infact recieve them, but they are mainly [u]not[/u] to grow the crops on their land. The government does this to try and keep the price of said crop from bottom out due to a saturation on the market. I live in the south and many of my families friends are farmers. They struggle everyday to make a living. So yeah, go ahead that think that its alot of money, but the farmer has to buy the seeds to plant, purchase the equipment to plant, grow, maintain, and harvest the crops, pay for diesel to run the equipment and pay to take the crops to a mill or gin. Many farmers have to pay to lease much of the land they farm on and if a farmer has a horribly crummy year, and drought or floods come, then they loose money and have to borrow heavily on banks to stay afloat in the worl. - Jimmy Dean Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:13:09 +0100