In a message dated 5/5/00 5:40:57 PM Central Daylight Time,
owner-sanet-mg-digest@cals.ncsu.edu writes:
> Now, if only we could get to the point where farmers don't buy the
> land, but only lease the right to be stewards thereof ... problem is,
> however, who would own the land. State ownership would be even worse
> than what we have now. But that's another discussion. I simply find it
> interesting that large numbers of "independent" farmers willingly sign
> over powers to a corporation that they would *never* allow a government
> to have --- and a *government* you can at least vote out of office.
Bart
I went to S.E. South Dakota a month or so ago. Cargill makes the offer to
all S. E. S. Dakota farmers and S. W. Minnesota farmers that they will lease
all and any land that is tillable for $120 per acre and pay $65 per acre for
any farmer to farm that land. They provide the seed, fertilizer and
pesticides. The $120 was $20 to $40 above existing rental prices. Combined
with $65 per acre to farm, whether drought or deluge, whatever the yield, the
farmer has security for the first time. Sound familiar poultry and hog
farmers? Cargill is the steward.
Best, Eric
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