Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Fourth-generation dairy farmer warns looming federal restrictions could end family farms" video.

  1. "You're never closer to God than when your hands are in the dirt." - sign in a little old lady's garden
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  2. 18 hours a day? Usually not. But definitely the hardest working. Grain farmers and ranchers get lots of in-between time off. But there's no letup for a dairy farmer.
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  3. I'm not sure they started out with that in mind, but by the time they got done guaranteeing every farmer a living and every consumer cheap food, the profit margins were razor thin, and you really had to be bigger in order to comply with all the rules and still support the operation. It's the same in all industries that government "helps." Now, after decades of meddling, the big corporate outfits have their lobbyists in Washington, DC, ensuring that those razor-thin margins will always be there for them, which squeezes all the family farmers out of the business. I grew up in dairy country, and while I was just a townie, I hung out with a lot of farm kids, helping with the chores. Dairy farmers are NOT lazy people. I don't know how they do it, honestly. 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. You don't skip a single milking. You CAN'T skip a single milking. But I don't get why they have to buy grain for their cows. Don't they grow their own corn, etc? That's how they did it in Pennsylvania. I agree 100% that growing corn and such for bio-fuels is stupid. It's a scam. It makes no sense.
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  4. Good leaders means politicians who don't meddle.
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  5. Gummint needs ta stop "helping." All it does is help itself to the fruits of our labor, while funneling money to the biggest outfits.
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