What animal would be the cheapest investment for a farmer; while giving the farmer a chance to benefit with quick rewards? I’m not sure if farmers think this way about their animals. For their crops this is very true. A farmer doesn’t care what they grow, the easier to maintain and harvest would be a factor, but money is generally the winner. You would think the system would fail over time and certain food items wouldn’t be grown anymore. Only thing I can think of now that isn’t grown in America anymore is the trans gram fats. It’s become a banned food in the U.S. and this means no one will ever get to eat a really good piece of fried chicken or remember just how good our potato chips use to be.

I guess the farmer’s system for growing crops is controlled by the supply and demand thing we have heard about many times from the business world. If corn pays the most, all farmers start growing corn, and pretty soon the supply is much greater than the demand. This farming practice would cause the price of corn to drop and the other foods would begin to pass corn, since no one was growing them and now the demand is real high. Growing crops on the farm is a big guessing game for these farmers. In most cases, they have been doing this their whole life and probably their dads, grandpas, and other generations were doing it before they were.

If there is an animal that’s more idea for raising during economical down turns, the supply and demand would kick in there too. Nobody can afford steaks and hamburgers, so we all eat chicken because it’s cheap. Now the consumers are to blame and not the farmers. They have ate up all the cheap chicken and what little chicken is left to be sold, has a higher price than read meat now. During this time, the beef industry kept bringing their product to the warehouses and storage areas and they have no more room to store their ground beef or T bone steaks. Instead of taking a total loss, they price it real cheap and now we can all eat a 12 oz NY Strip for a cheaper price than the 2 piece chicken dinner; the fast food restaurants are serving up.

Be sure to keep the farmer in mind for those that think America is broke, living on hard times, and the collapse of our society is just around the corner. We have a built-in system that will keep us from totally failing. Times may get hard and we may lose our way of living as we know it now. But due to the fact of supply and demand and the desire for people to do whatever it takes to become rich, we will always have a ear of corn and a chicken or a cow to eat. Farmers have spent generations watching these supplies and demands jump and now that it’s worked its way into our daily lives, we start forecasting the collapse of our country. You can run out if you want and yell to the top of your lungs “the sky is falling, the sky is falling“, but while you’re doing that, I will be finding a really good bargain somewhere.

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