Guest guest Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 > When dried beans started to be grown in North Dakota where I grew up and > my brothers still farm, the same thing happened. Some made some money, so > lots got involved, and the market crashed. My brother then went to > auctions and bought up bean growing and harvesting equipment at 10% of > market value and does eke out a little profit evry year on them becuase he > doesn't have to pro rate large costs for the equipment. > > Little bit of a tangent, but that boom and bust cycle is true in farming. "Walking down a rough dirt track in the open country we saw that the entire district was flat, fertile, and green. Unfortunately almost every field for miles around was dedicated to growing tobacco. Prabhupada expressed his amazement at the foolishness of modern economic systems. He explained that people can easily grow whatever they need in their own district, but instead they grow a product they can't eat. Then they ship it somewhere else at great expense. With the money they receive they buy the very food they could have grown themselves. This system does nothing but make their lives more complicated. And by becoming dependent on just one crop, livelihood is jeopardized because of the fluctuations of world markets which they have no power to influence. >>> Ref. VedaBase => TD 1-5: Sanand, Gujarat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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