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Posted by Steve - IN on June 20, 2002 at 07:03:20 from (12.222.1.20):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Best region or State to buy Tractors! posted by Bernhard on June 20, 2002 at 01:17:39:
Hi Bernhard, The land you can buy supported by the court of the village. Is that a kind of subsidy just to keep people there, and maybe attract some people? Gas prices. That is a European crazy thing. Crude oil is under $30.00 a 55 gallon barrel whether it comes from Americans, Russians, Arabs, or Norwegians. We are at $1.30 / gallon here now. You're at $6.00 / gallon. Most of the difference is tax. Your roads are not that much better than ours -- so where does the rest of the tax money go? I think there is too much thinking like old royalty in Europe. They want to keep you on foot or on a bicycle while they have the money to ride in carriages. Just one American's view of your gasoline situation. I agree, the EU has put a big burden on Germany. As I understand it, you work harder so a Frenchman can work less -- and then tell you how to act. I suppose I sound like von Bismarck or von Schlieffen. Anyway, when you grow a crop like wheat, you are directly competing with a farm in Spain where costs are a lot less. Here, they can grow wheat much more efficiently in Kansas than we can Indiana -- separated by about the same distance . I think you are now in the same type of system now, which causes a lot of problems for German farmers. I just looked up some US Dept. of Agriculture numbers. Of the 1.9 million farms in the US in 1997, only about half of them listed farming as their major source of income. The other half were farming on a part time basis, like your nachbar at Deutsche Telecom. In my family, my Dad's Dad was the last one who farmed full time. He quit in 1965. The rest of us have some land, grew up on farms, and love it; but we have jobs or businesses that are our main source of income... or the reason we can keep losing money doing some farming. I think if you want to make money at it, you have to be very good at a specialized crop or type of livestock -- or get a very big operation with a lot of land and a lot of expensive equipment. Otherwise, you put more money in to it than you ever get out. They list an average size U.S. farm at 487 acres. Yes, I know the Huertgen Forest. Big battle there in the Zweite Welt Krieg. You are pretty close to Bastogne and Waterloo as well, I think. Lot of history there. My Dad flew a B-17 during WWII from England. I remember him talking about seeing the two spires of the Cathedral in Koln from miles away at 25,000 feet -- and how nobody ever wanted to bomb close to that Cathedral because it was such a striking view from the air. Maybe it is not a good idea to talk about that. My Grandmother's younger brother was in the Wehrmacht, as an older man, in WWII and served in Russia. He did not come home until 1952. He used to tell my cousins terrible stories about that. Not a good memory either. Anyway, hope you find something more profitable than sugar beets to grow. With the EU growing, you have to now compete against Greeks and Turks an other low income countries. They did not try to make it easy for you. And you have a lot of tractors to support! Gluck haben Sie! Steve
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