No money in farming

[Cornfed]

It is a funny old world where useful people keeping us alive are paid peanuts while various social parasites such as the financial sector are creaming it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/opini ... .html?_r=0

[Moretorque]

This cannot last and the reset is coming, you are looking at socialism in it's full expression and that is a class that counterfeits money practices usury and lays claim to the world and treats and herds the producers of the civilization like cattle.

They did a nice job sensoring the books so we would think counterfeiting was a legitimate money system.

[OutWest]

It is a funny old world where useful people keeping us alive are paid peanuts while various social parasites such as the financial sector are creaming it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/opini ... .html?_r=0

Without a doubt, small farming is typically brutal. It is romanticized, but the reality is harsh.
A lot of BS rides on the "Sustainability" wagon, but the most truly sustainable elements are
poverty and hard work that can go on forever. Those things will always feed themselves perpetually.

That said...I do know of a small farmer in Oregon that does well on less than 50 acres, so it can be done, but for most, the rewards are slim. In part, a lot of these farmers in the "sustainability" farming
movement are wasting their lives enabling urban liberals to live out their fantasies

[Jester]

In part, a lot of these farmers in the "sustainability" farming
movement are wasting their lives enabling urban liberals to live out their fantasies

I remember someone planting lots of mangoes in the Philippines. If that wasn't you, who was it? Someone on the LivingInCebuForums maybe?

[OutWest]

In part, a lot of these farmers in the "sustainability" farming
movement are wasting their lives enabling urban liberals to live out their fantasies

I remember someone planting lots of mangoes in the Philippines. If that wasn't you, who was it? Someone on the LivingInCebuForums maybe?

Yes, we have mangoes and we have planted quite a few- we had some already and have planted about 14 acres more. Agricultural labor is cheap and our crop value is relatively high. We are especially
interested in dwarf trees for management reasons- so far no genetic dwarfs, just induced dwarfism through double-grafting. It is quite different than being in the states, and it is not the major part of our income. My friend in Oregon who does well on a small farm grows blueberries- mostly machine picked.