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I live in farm county and I was talking to my neighbor just a couple days ago about the cost of diesel to run their farm tractors, combines, and those semi-truck grain trucks. I simply asked how they are able to make any kind of profit to stay in business. (I'm talking about one of these farmers that owns, probably a thousand or more acres, and farms a couple or three thousand more for other's.
I have a friend who grows sweet corn. He told me before planting he would loose money this year. Fertilizer went from $75 to $275 per acre. Nitrogen went from $11 a bag to $30. Seed went up Diesel went up every thing went up.
So if he knew he would loose money why did he plant corn? I think several reasons. He worked at Virginia Tech in the AG dept. he has a PHD in farming and likes to grow corn. It’s double and triple sweet corn. So he grows it because look forward to it. He is a very nice person that money doesn’t mean much of. There are some nice people in this world.
Lynwood
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