Joe Wieskamp 2018

[carvers4math]

Trying to imagine if the kid in the thread title googles his name and comes up with this Farm Bureau/Iowa City is the Paris of Iowa (well other than the town actually called Paris, Iowa) crapfest.

 

[johnnybgood]

You need to learn the difference between a smart business move (it is) and a noble gesture (it is not, at least not for what most people think of when they hear "farmers").

And I've already told you, Farm Bureau is running actual farmers out of business. They're helping factory farms and big agribusiness bully family farmers out of business.

It can be a smart business move and a noble gesture (which it is), especially when you consider the different parties involved. ANF is good recognition and acknowledgment to farmers when they don't get near enough.

This is entirely inaccurate. Farm Bureau isn't running farmers out of business, the landscape of farming has simply changed from family farms being passed down from generation to larger farmers (who farm 75% of the land). It's a free market, and Farm Bureau and ANF aren't to blame for that. I thought you said you had insight, but your lack thereof is astounding considering how basic it is and how long this trend has been growing. I guess it's easier to always point the finger though.

 

[thrillcat]

It can be a smart business move and a noble gesture (which it is), especially when you consider the different parties involved. ANF is good recognition and acknowledgment to farmers when they don't get near enough.

This is entirely inaccurate. Farm Bureau isn't running farmers out of business, the landscape of farming has simply changed from family farms being passed down from generation to larger farmers (who farm 75% of the land). It's a free market, and Farm Bureau and ANF aren't to blame for that. I thought you said you had insight, but your lack thereof is astounding considering how basic it is and how long this trend has been growing. I guess it's easier to always point the finger though.

OK.

 

[johnnybgood]

OK.

Just so you don't get caught in this embarrassing situation again...

Increased rates of college graduates, migrating out of Iowa, young people not settling in small towns, the inability to make a healthy income on a family farm (particularly when a farm is passed down and parents/grandparents aren't deceased), and higher operating costs are the main reasons family farms is a dying tradition. NOT Farm Bureau & NOT ANF.

 

[Clark]

 

[thrillcat]

Just so you don't get caught in this embarrassing situation again...

Increased rates of college graduates, migrating out of Iowa, young people not settling in small towns, the inability to make a healthy income on a family farm (particularly when a farm is passed down and parents/grandparents aren't deceased), and higher operating costs are the main reasons family farms is a dying tradition. NOT Farm Bureau & NOT ANF.

Thanks! ^^^ He's got it all figured out, guys.

 

[ameslurker]

Ames Water > IC Water

 

[bawbie]

Closing the thread, it's suffered enough.