12-21-2008, 11:05 PM
Mac-A-Matic wrote:
[quote=Dakota]
[Farmers don't need the Ag department to tell them how to plant corn.
Agreed.
Yet, companies like Cargill and ADM need the Ag to create and enforce regulations which guarantee that those farmers will be tithed to their coffers.
Here is how I look at it. Caterpillar makes the machinery, Monsanto makes the fertilizer, Exxon brings the fuel, Somebody sells the seeds, God(or nature if it makes some more comfortable) makes the rain, and Joe the Farmer provides the sweat. End of story.