Future Crops Of Our Farmers

                                   Devastation And Poverty

               

               "Is this really what you want the world to turn into?"

 I can remember when farmers grew crops to feed the world, now they're doing it for the money. Just take a look in your local supermarkets. The prices of our food has hit an all time high. Not all, but most all of our farmers, have went to growing for the commercial end and not to feed the world. Not to discriminate against any one farmer. This is based on my own opinion from what I see around me. Maybe it's just me but I can see that the prices on our food has almost tripled in the past two years. Lets take corn for instance, it's our number one cash crop here in the United States and in the world. Corn is grown on over 400,000 U.S. farms. The U.S. produced almost ten billion bushels of the worlds total 23 billion bushel crop. Corn grown for grain accounts for almost one quarter of the harvested crop acres in this country. Corn grown for silage accounts for about two percent of the total harvested cropland or about 6 million acres. But we have seventy-two million acres. Where does this corn crop go? Surly it can't be for our livestock or for our dinner tables, so we can eat, is it?

Crop prices, some of which reached the highest averages ever in 2011, bolstered the economies of Midwest growing states, sent net farm income up 28 percent to $100.9 billion and pushed the value of farmland to a record $2,350 an acre, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates. “There is unlikely to be any ground that won’t be planted this year.” I don't think its to feed anyone. It also has a wide array of industrial uses including ethanol, a popular oxygenate in cleaner burning auto fuels. Do you still think they grow this corn to feed the hungry anymore? The Government has even stuck their nose in to our farms just to turn a buck and this has turned even the best farmer who had made it his number one goal of feeding the children of this world, into a money hungry foul that cares more about his pockets than human life itself. Therefore, the price of our food continues to rise so much that the average family can not afford to feed their own children.             

To me this sure sounds like devastation and poverty. How about you? A lot of the corn crop does go into our supermarkets but people like me that are just about below poverty level just can't afford it. Examples: Corn chips costing as much as $4.00 per bag, corn oil also cost around the four dollar mark. Even popcorn has sky rocketed. And it's just not the corn farmers, take a look at sugar and bread prices, they all play a part in making ethanol. In this news video just look at the faces of the cast as they talk only about

the money and the gas. Never once did I hear the word food or feeding anyone, just on how it would be a smart idea to buy commodities such as corn, sugar, wheat and so on. Sounds like it's back to the money-greedy people that will always find ways to make a buck on the underdog like us. It's just another way to control you and they know this works. You have to eat, right? My advice to you is to start a garden and grow what your family eats, raise a cow or two and maybe a couple of pigs. Being independent is still a part of your heritage. If we the people stop buying there food, the price will drop. This, if not for any other reason, will be to get you to start buying food from them once again.