FARM CRISIS - CAUSES and SOLUTIONS

     with Darrell Udelhoven

The Low Farm Income Crisis has Workable Solutions - without Political Advocates

1) There is no farm production surplus in relationship to the human need for food, therefore, the core problem is lack of consumer per capita income in many areas of the world. This per capita income distribution problem has resulted in a food distribution problem resulting in food distribution shortages in poverty stricken human communities.

We need to wage a war against our common global enemies — "poverty and hunger," in the same way that we marshaled our resources against the enemy axis during W.W.II.

2) The extremes in the volatility of currency values creates non competitive trade differentials. We need to reduce the number of currencies and implement corrective fair trade adjustments to moderate those differentials.

There are huge built-in global production cost differentials between Developed and Developing countries that are due to broad differences in regulations and costs in every production arena. All of which need to be adjusted in all trade policies.

3) All of the existing trade agreements must be re-negotiated towards the balancing of all the major fundamental non competitive price differentials. This is why we need to retain import quotas and tariffs instead of phasing them out under existing trade policy. All major economic classifications must be provided a reasonable equity of economic opportunity.

4) Genuine grassroots economic development that translates to butter and beef, not guns! A non exploitative, just development of all economies worldwide would help resolve the strife that leads to revolutions and war.

5) It is critical that we develop, utilize, and implement, renewable energy resources worldwide. We do not hear these critical issues thoroughly debated in our presidential and congressional political campaigns.

6) We need to help farmers develop vertically integrated production and marketing cooperatives that would provide competition to the monopoly buyers that exist today.

7) We need to pass legislation that would marginalize the large corporate genetic bio-tech patenting of the seeds of all crop varieties whereby they can control the markets and charge farmers what ever they want to.

8) We need to provide low interest rate loans to farmers.

Applying creative and just means to righteous ends is a much more efficient use of intellect and money! When a proper standard of living for all people is met, the threat of war will diminish.

Agricultural Production Costs - *1997 USDA figures

 

 

Commodity 

Full Economic Costs*

Current Prices

Hogs

 

 

 

 

(farrow-finish)

$58/cwt.

$32.50/cwt.

Cow-calf

$770.16/bred cow

$551/bred cow

Corn

$2.66/bu.

$1.70/bu.

Soybeans

$5.61/bu.

$4.12/bu.**

Wheat

 

 

 

 

(all types)

$4.87/bu.

$3.30/bu.**

Milk

$18.07/cwt.

$12.09 

 

 

(all avg. for April)

*1997 USDA figures. ** Reflects terminal Prices.

Would you like to be a farmer?

We need to develop Global Economic Policies that Produce a Reasonable Balance between the Extreme Economic Production Cost Differentials that exist between countries. These Production Cost Differentials are Exploited by Transnational Corporations to achieve unfair predatory advantages over homeland economies.

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is doing away with many of the  mechanisms needed to establish global competitiveness between countries. When economic policy justice is established between countries in the arenas of production cost differentials, currency differentials, and all the other noncompetitive element factors, then prosperity will begin to be re-established across the entire global economy. When all the segments of the economies of all countries are allowed to prosper through the implementation of "reasonably fair competitive global regulatory policies," the major causal source of our economic problems will have been effectively eliminated.

A far better way to cut taxes is to regulate global economic policy so that the entire spectrum of all homeland economies of countries achieve genuine prosperity. When the real per capita income levels rise to new heights across the entire economic spectrum this will allow the reduction of per capita income taxes, while simultaneously reducing all debt loads. The proper regulation of global economic policy is critical to mutual long term economic stability for all economic sectors within all countries.

America is a Plutocracy

America is no longer a republic or a democracy, but rather has become a Plutocracy; we are ruled by and brain washed by the money and the powers of giant Transnational corporate economic and political self interest.
We can produce mutual win/win economic policy making equations for everyone worldwide, when all farmers are informed by, and have two-way global media capabilities through their own programmed global satellite channel networks with associated newsgroups, ListServs, and Internet Web sites.

All of the existing trade agreements must be re-negotiated towards "the balancing of all the major fundamental non competitive price differentials." This is why we need to retain import quotas and tariffs instead of phasing them out under existing trade policy. We need to develop Global Economic Policies that Produces a Balance between the Economic Sector production cost differentials of countries on a Worldwide basis.

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is doing away with the many of the  mechanisms needed to establish global competitiveness between countries. When economic policy justice is established between countries in the arenas of production cost differentials, currency differentials, and all the other noncompetitive factors, then, and only then, will prosperity begin to be re-established across the entire global economy.

When all countries and segments of economies are allowed to prosper through the implementation of 'fair competitive global regulatory policies' the major causal source of our economic problems will have been effectively eliminated.

A far better way to cut taxes is to regulate global economic policy so that the entire spectrum of all homeland economies of countries genuinely prosper. When the real per capita income levels rise to new heights across the entire economic spectrum this will allow the reduction of per capita income taxes while simultaneously reducing all debt loads. The proper regulation of global economic policy is critical to mutual long term economic stability for all countries and their peoples.

We can produce mutual win/win economic policy making equations that will help prosper every economic sectorAll farmers must be informed by, and have two-way global media capabilities through their own programmed global satellite channel networks with associated newsgroups, ListServs, and Internet Web sites. 


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