I don't think anyone here is anti-farmer. But to paraphrase it's also amazing how anti hunter some farmers are as well. We all used to be on the same page, ruralists, farmers, hunters who appreciate the rural life, we all used to look on each other with at least benign acceptance and tolerance. Tolerance being the fastest disappearing quality in America. Disappearing much faster in the cities than small town, and rural America. Just because some here advocate for change, from a non sustainable and subsidized sytem, to a system which allows us all, farmers, and consumers who share the enviornment alike to move into a mutual, sustainable, and long term profitable future. My client farmers, especially livestock farmers, are struggling mightly,right now, have been for some time. It wasn't so long ago corn was 3.00, might not be long before it is again, does that future seem profitable to you? If we don't speak up here for what matters to pheasant hunters, where do we do it? Last time I looked this was the Pheasant Hunters Forum, not Modern Farming Today. Suprisingly, many modern farming practices are directly opposed to the welfare of pheasants, and in the long run human beings, likely, even the human beings doing the farming. A future devoid of wildlife, a monoculture of moonscape, with water we have to spend millions to treat in order to drink, rapidly spiralling consumer food costs, every farmer a slave to debt on green paint, and outrageous inputs from Agri-giant consortiums which patent seed, lifeforms, and pesticides/herbicides developed by our public supported Universities. If this is the future your darn right I want to change it.
