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"Can we feed and fuel 9.7 billion people in 2050?"
It's just a commodity. And we get paid accordingly until market dynamics like in lentils and mustard occur this year. Will we ever see this in wheat, corn, soybean and canola? I'm feeling so warm and fuzzy I had to take some clothes off.
A few years ago that video would have inspired me . Today , with the exploding cost and risk involved with net returns getting squeezed tighter and tighter even with good crops .. Not so much
Everyone in the input chain up and down is pissing there pants with glee to extract every last dollar we try to make - I am only 44 but the future is a lot more questionable now than just a few years ago. The massive risk in land , machinery , parts and crop inputs have taken the shine off the primary producer outlook - well this one anyway.
It is a well done video but it sends the message that all is well when in fact its really nothing like that at all. Wheres the people hovering around the broken down combine, or worse a full grain cart?
Where is the little pile of grain where the chute didnt quite close properly? Where is the lender visiting to discuss the massive line if credit necessary to make it happen? What about the employee who didnt show up because he is hungover of making amends with his old lady?
What about the shitty looking 25 year old auger tractor? How about the new cart tractor that wont move until $1100.00 pays the kid to reflash the computer because of a faulty sensor? How much interest is being paid to grow the commodity for 5% below cost of production?
Nobody cares, they are busy dealing with their own lives and respectfully so.
Always the biggest and best of everything. My wheat crop produced swaths, off a wide throat Macdon header, that had a "dribble" off each canvas and a space between them. Thank God I was able to pick it all up(this isn't about the merits of straight cutting or a debate over it). Don't see that often in the feel good videos, eh! Or stuck tractors and sprayers, only the glory not the pain.
Enjoy your reasonably priced food. You're welcome!
LOL Foragefarmer! I was thinking the same thing!
Although, good thing the camera crew wasn't filming when I punched myself in the face with a 15/16' wrench while tightening the swather d****r......that would have been spectacular with that soundtrack!! lol
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