SW “Ohia” | BurkFarms - 7/1/2022 16:55
I’m an I stater but barely. Ohio line is 3/4 of a mile from my house.
I can’t decide if you guys have a jealous love infatuation with “I states” or you just like to piss and moan about them.
I staters don’t know what a drought is…I staters miraculously grow 250 bu corn on 2” of rain…I staters always cry wolf…blah blah blah.
If you want to point the finger at someone try the mirror. (And same goes to the I staters). How many areas that didn’t used to grow corn or soybeans do now. My grandfathers first bean crop was planted to make hay.
If you’re so concerned that the prices revolve around 3 states plant a different crop. Oats, barely, tobacco, etc. Go ahead at tell me there is no market for it. Probably true.
While corn and beans have been planted all over for a very long time it wasn’t the main crops for such a vast area. Understandable the market was there so people adapted and started planting more of them. If you don’t like it move on to something else
Plenty of us don’t want to be corn and soybean farmers, but it’s the only option. I’d gladly take my acreage and go back to raising tobacco and dairy cow feed if I could. But when our crop was in its death throes from corporate greed, the corn guys didn’t seem to give a single damn. The end result? They get more acres competing against them every year as this story is repeated in countless other crops.
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Beans keep going down
