On: We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Idea of Owners...

[JoeAltmaier]

Specialty crops depend on the availability of somebody to buy them. My brother tried that last, before he gave up.

[rsync → JoeAltmaier]

An alternative to specialty crops is regular crops but higher up the value-add chain.

Corn -> corn mash -> fermented corn mash -> ethanol -> bourbon -> aged bourbon

40 acres of corn gets you nowhere. 40 acres of corn converted to bourbon gets you generational wealth.

[JoeAltmaier → rsync]

Ha! This is what all Appalachian farmers did in the 1700's, with no roads and long distances to market. They converted corn to whiskey, concentrating the wealth. It was George Washington that ruined that with his regressive Whiskey Tax. Our modern caricature of the moonshining mountain yokel was created way back then, to marginalize poor farmers.