July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Agriculture is important (01/15/07)
Letter to the Editor
To the editor:
I keep reading all these complaints in the newspaper of local people complaining about the local agriculture community. They either complain about the smell that they think will come and they might get a small whiff of it. Every time I see someone complain about agriculture it really gets to me. Agriculture is a big founder to the WORLD.
If all the farmers in the world just decided to go on strike for two or three years, what do you think would happen to our country? Or the rest of the world?
A lot of people don't know anything about agriculture. Just because they were born and raised in the country/ rural setting doesn't mean they know anything about agriculture beyond that farmers drive big tractors and combines down the road and make people have to slow down and move over. As probably 99.9% of farmers know, a lot of products are made from corn and soybeans and other grains. If people took the time and would study into things before they just start complaining about other peoples way of life. Who do they think they are?
Agriculture was here before a lot of things were here.
Agriculture dates way back to our ancestors when people grew their own food and hunted for the meat. Probably a very large majority of peoples families are connected to agriculture by their ancestors. Yes I agree that too many CFO's is a bad thing.
Too many people living in the country are trying to make it into an urban sprawl is a bad thing.
If you can't take the heat, or in this case the smell and the dust, then move into the city and stop complaining about people making their own livelihood.
You don't see farmers writing letters to the newspapers complaining about how they had to slow down and move over for a farmer driving his tractor down the road trying to make a living. People are so stuck on themselves that they don't take the time to think about other people, just themselves. Think about those candles that you burn on your dinner table or the candles you burn during the holiday season, they might just have been made from products relating back to agriculture.
They use soybeans and corn to make plastics in a lot of cases because it is cheaper than petroleum products to mfg. But heaven forbid we stop and think about that.
We just want to complain about things other people do because it doesn't benefit them.
So why should they praise it? The next time you go to a meat packing plant or a locally owned and operated business like Fisher Packing. Stop and think where that hamburger that your eating for lunch is coming from. Or where that salad with eggs and carrots and cheese comes from, and I'll bet you it can all be traced back to a family owned farm somewhere.
I'm taking a stand for the local agriculture community. And I will stand by them all the way, helping them fight to make a living - as if farming isn't hard enough already.
Then you get these "whiner babies" making things even harder.
I've worked on a farm for a few years and I know it's hard work. I've seen first-hand what it does to the people involved. It stresses them out.
You know you're trying to make a living and depending on the weather to make a living is a big risk.
It can take weeks to plant your crops and only minutes for the weather to destroy it: Too much rain, too little rain, too much wind that flattens a field of standing corn, wheat, or a hail storm that strips the crop to just the stalk.
It's a lot of hard work, it's enduring, a little emotional at times.
It's a lot harder and more physically enduring than sitting behind a computer, or sitting by a phone thinking about things to complain about.
It's time for the local agriculture community to come together and fight back.
Farming shouldn't be a right given by your neighbors. It should be your own choice to farm.
You shouldn't have to ask permission to farm your own land in the way you see fit.
But that's how it is now days. People moving from the city out in the country and then they complain about it and who pays the price? The farmers do. Like I said before.
Farming should be a choice, not a right given by your complaining neighbors.
Jason Confer
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
I keep reading all these complaints in the newspaper of local people complaining about the local agriculture community. They either complain about the smell that they think will come and they might get a small whiff of it. Every time I see someone complain about agriculture it really gets to me. Agriculture is a big founder to the WORLD.
If all the farmers in the world just decided to go on strike for two or three years, what do you think would happen to our country? Or the rest of the world?
A lot of people don't know anything about agriculture. Just because they were born and raised in the country/ rural setting doesn't mean they know anything about agriculture beyond that farmers drive big tractors and combines down the road and make people have to slow down and move over. As probably 99.9% of farmers know, a lot of products are made from corn and soybeans and other grains. If people took the time and would study into things before they just start complaining about other peoples way of life. Who do they think they are?
Agriculture was here before a lot of things were here.
Agriculture dates way back to our ancestors when people grew their own food and hunted for the meat. Probably a very large majority of peoples families are connected to agriculture by their ancestors. Yes I agree that too many CFO's is a bad thing.
Too many people living in the country are trying to make it into an urban sprawl is a bad thing.
If you can't take the heat, or in this case the smell and the dust, then move into the city and stop complaining about people making their own livelihood.
You don't see farmers writing letters to the newspapers complaining about how they had to slow down and move over for a farmer driving his tractor down the road trying to make a living. People are so stuck on themselves that they don't take the time to think about other people, just themselves. Think about those candles that you burn on your dinner table or the candles you burn during the holiday season, they might just have been made from products relating back to agriculture.
They use soybeans and corn to make plastics in a lot of cases because it is cheaper than petroleum products to mfg. But heaven forbid we stop and think about that.
We just want to complain about things other people do because it doesn't benefit them.
So why should they praise it? The next time you go to a meat packing plant or a locally owned and operated business like Fisher Packing. Stop and think where that hamburger that your eating for lunch is coming from. Or where that salad with eggs and carrots and cheese comes from, and I'll bet you it can all be traced back to a family owned farm somewhere.
I'm taking a stand for the local agriculture community. And I will stand by them all the way, helping them fight to make a living - as if farming isn't hard enough already.
Then you get these "whiner babies" making things even harder.
I've worked on a farm for a few years and I know it's hard work. I've seen first-hand what it does to the people involved. It stresses them out.
You know you're trying to make a living and depending on the weather to make a living is a big risk.
It can take weeks to plant your crops and only minutes for the weather to destroy it: Too much rain, too little rain, too much wind that flattens a field of standing corn, wheat, or a hail storm that strips the crop to just the stalk.
It's a lot of hard work, it's enduring, a little emotional at times.
It's a lot harder and more physically enduring than sitting behind a computer, or sitting by a phone thinking about things to complain about.
It's time for the local agriculture community to come together and fight back.
Farming shouldn't be a right given by your neighbors. It should be your own choice to farm.
You shouldn't have to ask permission to farm your own land in the way you see fit.
But that's how it is now days. People moving from the city out in the country and then they complain about it and who pays the price? The farmers do. Like I said before.
Farming should be a choice, not a right given by your complaining neighbors.
Jason Confer
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
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