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I was once a part of a family run farming business. In the early years of trying to make a living the farmer was low on the list of governmental business junctures. Many farmers were loosing their lands and were getting very little help in keeping America and other parts of the world supplied with the food they needed.

I think Agriculture is the single most important factor in business today. People will always find food comes first when providing for their families. Farmers have always been self efficient in supplying their own foods. The extra crops not needed by the farming family have been taken to produce markets all over the united states for sale at market prices.

Now that America sees the energy crunch hitting America hard in the future, they have shifted the once docile farmer to the front once again. Bio fuels that are needed from farmers are being regulated to fit with the growing fuel shortages we will be facing. Farmers will have to balance the needs of both fuels and food for the people.

These two products produced by farmers will have to be closely looked at to determine the best ways in planting crops to sustain both bio fuels and foods for the populace. A shortage in either area of importance could have great draw backs to the United States economy.

Bio fuels will be the biggest money crops for farmers and they will look upon this as their way to survival and keeping their farms alive. Food will become secondary for the farmer and production will probably drop off in the future due to demand for energy sources.

I would like to see our government be sincerely fair to the farmer and all they do to provide for the country. Farmers have been taken advantage of way to often here in America. Farmers have cost and overheads just like any other big business in America. We should never bite the hand that feeds us.

The thing that is most important to me in the farmers production of food, is the price that we pay at the check out counter of stores. Oil prices have driven up food production all over the world. We have felt this when we buy groceries and gas for our cars. We have to find a happy medium between the farmers and the consumers.

We can not afford to let farming become a monopoly and hold their prices against the growing of crops and bio fuels against us. If this happens the research of bio fuels will fail. The farmers have to be careful on how they set their prices for the consumer. If we all work together to find solutions to these problems, we could very well ease the problems of bio fuels and food shortages in the future.

The operations of daily farming consumes a large amount of fuels for tractors and other machinery. The high prices farmers pay for fuels have driven cost up for their products to feed the world. Every thing comes at a cost and seems to have a snow ball effect when the oil prices rise.

America will be faced with these problems in the years to come, but the farmer will be expected to save us all once again. Lets just hope they are non biased towards a hungry nation. There is much to loose in the battle against power and food.

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