Son of a Farmer

My Fellow Liberators, I’ve been pissed off for quite a few years about…everything going on in this country and this world. I’m so tired of so many things.

If you haven’t figured out what is going on by now or why, this video might kick the door in of your dark room. The Powers That Be are coercing us into a world we do not want nor need to be in. Whether it is the Council of Foreign Relations (the brainchild of David Rockefeller,) The Trilateral Commission, Bildeberger, or the New World Order, one thing is for certain – we are headed toward One World Government.

What’s to stop them? It certainly won’t be us…will it? I mean, last I checked – whining and bitching and moaning never got anything done. Watch the video. Incredible what we’ve walked into like zombies. Incredulous how powerless They think we are. The truth is all there.
Do with it what you will.

I’ve read on several sites and blogs about HR 875, which I talk about down below and also SR 425. I’ve yet to find any actual text describing SR 425 in detail or explaining exactly what it is. Does anyone have a good link? Please respond. Gracias.

Oh, and keep your eyes and ears peeled around April Fool’s Day when the G20 Meetings take place. New World Currency? More bankster robberies of your pensions? Confiscation of more liberties and freedoms? Stay tuned as the barbed-wire rolls around us.

Years of studying Monsanto’s dark Empire and their GM (genetically-modified) seed, I’ve had in my gut and head the unruly ramifications of this soul-sucking leech, and my feelings have recently been backed by a recent study by the Institute of Science in Society. According to the revealing study, where farmers planted Bt cotton for three consecutive years, all soil life was drastically reduced, including bacteria and biomass. It is literally killing the Earth. And yet farmers continue to use it, continue to do business with Monsanto as if they have no choice, ignoring all moral, ethical, and spiritual barriers.

We must boycott Monsanto and all their products…Now!

Lots of stories coming out of the woodwork about our seed supply situation in this country. The news isn’t good. We’ve got to start saving our seeds NOW! Whether it be tomato, corn, cotton, wheat, basil, or whatever. If you don’t have seeds, make sure you get heirloom seeds as they are able to keep reproducing after several generations. Personally, I’ve already received emails from two different organic garden seed suppliers asking customers to grow seeds for them to help with the dwindling supplies.

Combine this with the bill in committee right now dubbed HR 875, Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 that will allow government to storm and confiscate farmers and gardeners’ produce if under “suspicion” of mishandling. The Representatives who introduced this piece of legislation are Rosa DeLaura of Connecticut, Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas (Dallas), and a handful of others. They’re passing this on the heels of the whole salmonella scare with Peanut Butter, I’m sure thinking we’ll welcome it with open arms. Yet another law to protect us from ourselves. How thoughtful of them.

But let’s dive into this deeper shall we? Lawmakers will want us to think this is about shutting down those darned ol’ corporations who get out of line with safety measures, causing disease, illness, and deaths in the consumers. Yeah, just like they’re punishing all the big time bankers and hedge fund handlers on Wall Street for their greed and self-indulgence. Make no mistake about it, this is legislation against the farmer or any being practicing independence and self-sufficiency not involving fascists like Monsanto. Do we seriously believe they plan on going after large corporations who donate millions annually to key political campaigns? Come on. This is an outright war on We the People.
Upon finding out about this bill going to committee last month, I got on the phone with my congressman. Happy to find out U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer is on this committee and is definitely against it. Way to go Randy! I scolded the other two representatives’ poor assistants. Those conversations ended a lot like my first sexual experience – one of us was disappointed the other was confused, but we both felt as if we’d been violated.
More laws being passed with the help of Monsanto over the past few years. Read this story to find more.

This goes hand-in-hand with conversations I’ve had at the local cafe this week with farmers who can’t get conventional (non-GM) cotton seed delinted nearby.  It appears Western Gaines Seed & Delinting is as crooked as it gets. Dozens of farmers have sent perfectly dry and healthy seed there to get delinted and bagged only to receive a call that the seed is too wet and no good. No doubt Western Gaines is in bed with Monsanto.

If reading 120-pages of legislation is too much for the eyes and brain, watch this quick video that sums it up for you. 
Click on this youtube video on finding out how to join the movement against Monsanto and GM seed and food laws.  It stars Vandana Shiva, who is the modern version of Ghandi in India. She has been instrumental in the education and movement against GMs across the world.

Shit is rolling downhill and fast in this country. Question is, when and how will we stand up together and fight against more laws against We the People?

“When the people fear the government you have tyranny. When the government fears the people you have liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson

Seems as if I’ve hit a nerve with the notion that farming less land is in our future. Good. I’m welcome to discussion on this topic.

As one farmer told me, “The only way that has made sense for us getting by is by farming large amounts of land – more volume.”

I agree. That has worked…in the past. My theory is based primarily on the idea of current trends continuing their decline.  If commodities skyrocket back to where they were one year ago, then yeah we’ll be fine with the same amount of land. But factor in out-of-control tractor and equipment prices. Factor in fertilizers and other input prices in mass quantities. Factor in the probablity of fuel prices exploding back over $100 -150/barrel anywhere down the line. Factor in banks are now having to pay 18 times their amount in annual FDIC insurance protection. Things are shadey. It’s always been risky, this I know. But now, it is reaching a boiling point. Something has to go.
Much depends on this summer’s crop. What effect will all this orgy of economic stimulating have on commodity crops in six months? Will it stay flat? Will inflation kick in like crazy? Food shortages? Prolonged droughts? Same-sex marriages? (Just seeing if you’re awake.) Unemployment? We’ll find out soon enough.

A shout out to Farmer Terry in Virginia. Sounds like you’re keepin’ the campfire lit. Yeah, an operation like yours might can make perfect sense of farming large acres, but it sounds like you’re less dependent on lots of tractors, fuel, and equipment with your grass crops. I’m guessing you primarily graze with livestock. Out here, it’s all about the tractor and plow still. Times are a changin’ though.What is the average-size farm in your neck of the woods?
Regardless, I feel (and it is merely my opinion) we’ll witness a significant reduction in acres per operation over the next two-three years, if that operation consists of a large dose of rented land. Rented land acres will have to experience a severe meltdown to where landlords will have to reduce their share from 25% to 20% to as little as 15% if they’ll expect anyone to touch it. This is where the big shock and awe will be. Also, we’ll need to be spending more energy and hours on other things like producing our own food, making our operations more sustainable by being less dependent on outside sources whether that be biofuels, other forms of alternative energy, or exploring new crops or all the above.
Thanks to Bostx for the video verifying the farmer as an optimistic occupation. And Ms. Braveheart, your wit and wisdom is always welcome.

Spent a lot of time contemplating and discussing the transformation of our family farm these past few months. My battlecry is survival – change, evolve, diversify on many levels. And take a deep breath, my fellow farmers, because one of the ways we’ll have to survive is to farm less land. Crazy to accept since the farmer has survived the past 30 years by getting bigger and bigger. But sooner than later, all living things reach their capacity. Our ego gets in the way, not allowing us to recognize we peaked along with the banking and automobile industry and are beginning a slippery retrograde to something vastly smaller yet more significant. I believe this ‘addition by subtraction’ is a good thing. We’ve used and abused too much land for far too long.

Minimizing our production will afford us to avoid excessive payments on multiple tractors and other equipment that will allow us to continue our way of living or at least surviving this Greater Depression. Minimizing operations will give us the opportunity to rebuild the soil, polycrop, and expand our mental horizons. Not to mention greatly reduce our stress levels on our own minds and emotions, as well as the environment.

My Dad, who has been doing this sodbustin’ thing for most of his 62 years, along with most older generation farmers are saying they see, “The writing is on the wall.” What does that mean? It means, most farmers will be out of business, one way or the other, very soon. Some will call it ‘retirement’ even though they can’t afford that luxury. Some will have no choice but to make a career change because their bank will likely ‘shut them down’.
You see, my friends, the American farmer lives on borrowed money and time. And we’re almost out of both. The average age of the American farmer is 65. I ask you this question. Who is left? How many young farmers do you know? By young, I mean 40 and under. What will happen to Grandma and Grandpa’s farm? Their house? Their barn? I shutter to think at times how finely bricked homes will someday join rickety shacks along the highway – abandoned, collecting tumbleweeds and sandpiles? How many of you know how to grow enough food to support your family? If you are nervous by that last question, you will be effected in an extremely alarming way within the next three-five months.
What will save the American farmer once the government reduces our welfare checks (known as subsidies) and completes the 180 degree turn away from us? How free will you be in your urban castles when all your food is coming from thousands of miles away and across at least one border? How free are any of us if three or four corporations control all food and clothing crops? How free is a nation that can neither feed nor clothe itself?
And my question to the American farmer is how proud will we be if we refuse to change our actions, reactions, and mentality? Are there any Sons of Farmers remaining? Few. Very few. Is there any fight left? How can we continue to make it as a steward of the land? What will prolong our survival?

The answer is getting back in touch with Mother Nature. Becoming a part of her, listening to Her, and helping her. Stop poisoning the soil, the air we breathe, and the water we drink. Stop planting GM crops – it is cancer on a stick. Stop thinking only of money while we disregard Nature. Yes, we have to make a living. No, it does not have to be at the expense of Nature and future generations.

Change. I know that doesn’t set well for most farmers. Don’t think of it as change, think of it as evolution. If that doesn’t work, think of it as survival.

If any of you come to this website regularly, I thank you. For those of you who are new to SOAF, enjoy the ride.

All this tension building up in the world can be felt easily each morning before turning on the tube, internet, or radio. People are pissed. Riots are spreading across the globe. Everywhere from Iceland to Ireland to France to Greece to China to the home of Bank of America’s CEO in Connecticut. The revolution is picking up steam and spreading fast.