RE: How Brazil outfarmed the American farmer
well its been talked about for the last ten years how Brazil was going to out produce the American farmers by 2010. they did do it. in part because of the demand for corn. you take 100 acre Field and get 45 bushel soybeans. thats 4,500 bushels. take that times the current price of 11.23. thats 50535.00 . you take that same 100 acres and grow 174 bushel corn. thats 17,400 bushels of corn times the current market price of 4.67. thats 81258.00 .so by growing corn i can make 30723.00 more growing corn than soybeans. which would you grow? granted the bushels per acre are my county average. over all my soybean fields this year i got a 50 bushel average. my corn this year averaged 198 bushels. they also have the advantage of turning the rain forest it to crop land. they are growing there acres every year. the American farmer is losing thousands of acres to development every year. we lost 40+ acres to the new ethanol plant four miles from my house. ten years ago we sold 25 acres for the new prison they built. we are losing a couple thousand acres to the new high way 20 road being built. the farmers that tried to fight the road lost there ground anyways and most of the time they got paid less than the people that agreed to it with out fighting the government. so its just a matter of time for a developing country like Brazil before they take over more of the soybean market. they also get two crops and some times three crops a year. here in Iowa we only get one crop a year. any ways just remember ever new walmart is taking that much more farm land out of production never to be regained .
|
