In a message dated 8/26/01 2:13:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
altamiratexas@earthlink.net writes:
<<
It's quite a stretch to call subsidies amounting to 11% of "marketings"
value low. In fact, in at least some individual cases (I suspect in MANY
such cases) the subsidies make the difference between a net loss and a net
profit.
>>
This is exactly what I was told by a neighbor <farmer> of mine many years
ago. He phrased it.....<approximately>...."I do good to break even on the
crops...the profit is in the government subsidies"
EvMick
Kress Tx.
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