"It might be interesting too for each of us to go out and buy a large tract of land, all the very expensive equipment that's required to work that land, the seed to put in the ground, the long hard filthy hours put in working it and the measly price we're going to get for the crop and then see if we wouldn't want some stranger to actually pay to trespass and hunt something that we would actually like to get rid of just so we could supplement our income a little."

You are correct. i do believe that most smaller family farms have a hard go of it. The larger farms are very different. They first thing they do when they acquire more land is to apply for more farm welfare money-your tax money and my tax money. Ten percent of large farms receive 70 percent of farm welfare money.

i was raised in WV where farmers take good care of their machinery. In OK and TX they buy a $150,000 combine or tractor and let it sitoutside in the weather until it is no longer serviceable. These farm porkers do not see the value in a $20,000 shed to house their farm machinery.