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Farmers Unable to Cash in on Soaring Food Prices

latimes.com — With costs as high as an elephant's eye, some growers are even cutting back on crops that are in short supply. They say the reason is simple. The cost of planting some crops is rising as fast as their prices, and sometimes faster, leaving little incentive to increase production of some foods that remain in high demand around the world.

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  • AlwaysAwake, on 05/13/2008, -0/+20Cargill, Dow, Monsanto and others are tripling fertilizer costs. All oil related costs going up too. Truckers are rebelling, threatening to stop hauling. The NWO plan to starve us into submission is on track, and working just fine for them so far. And for them, the best part is that they are getting us to pay for our own extermination
  • bstory, on 05/13/2008, -0/+14farmers take it on the chin once again
  • maxtangent, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Is it obvious, yet, that small farmers will not be tolerated and that big corporations are going to run it all?
  • jer2eydevil88, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Lots of bad things happen to an economy when you borrow trillions of dollars and undermine the value of your currency with big trade deficits. What worries me is that we haven't seen this shipwreck settle out yet, meaning we could keep sinking for a while longer.
  • roosevans, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1The willingness of farmers to form cooperatives to produce more, save more and profit more is one solution to escalating food prices, in my opinion.
  • bincoder, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2back in the day, horses did the plowing, planting and harvesting of crops. Seems I recall horses also get infinty trillion miles per gallon of diesel fuel and actually are run on solar power. Why go broke sending money to saudi arabia to put out more produce for less profit? Just a thought.
  • Kisama, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1It's a harvest moon nightmare!
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