Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | Little Joe - 5/21/2013 19:40
THANK YOU Gary
A bag of seed corn cost an average of $300.00 here. Plants over 2 acres that nets 200 bushels of corn per acre.
So the farmer got 400 bushels at $7.00 per bushel on a $300 investment? That's $2500 per bushel profit on the seed according to farmer math.
Most of the whiners here think they are the only ones with production costs.
So seed is one small part.
Now think of a production input that is a much smaller expense than seed, but can be saddled with all of the blame for rising prices in a retail situation, while ignoring other rising expenses and margins. That's what's going on when farmers are blamed for rising food prices.
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Mentioned to some city folk friends....
