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In article <34FA62C8.409A@enterprise.net>, John Scudamore
<whale@enterprise.net> writes

>Craig Severson wrote:
>> 
>> John Scudamore wrote:
>> 
>> > Oh really?  Most of my income comes from farming.
>> 
>> Tell us a bit about your operation
>
>You mean the one where they inserted the "see farming more clearly"
>chip?  I don't normally discuss my operations, but you can get that one
>when you stop actively farming.  

1) I have never before come across a real farmer who was not keen to
discuss his operations at some reasonable level.

2) From your previous comments on 'a goat' one would expect you to have
been a hobby farmer or smallholder. If 'most of your income' came from
this you have my sympathy.

3) From your last sentence (above) it would appear that you are no
longer a farmer. Furthermore it suggests that you failed in your farming
efforts and this would explain your irrational, incorrect and hystrionic
attacks on other farmers. I have often noticed this behaviour from
people in this situation and seems to come from an inability to realise
that they failed (very often) due to their own incompetence and to blame
it on other farmers 'cheating' in some way. This can build up quite a
head of emotional steam. I have never come across this from real farmers
who have failed (for whatever reason) whose usual emotion is one of
sorrow. 

Much of the antagonism from relatively new 'organic' farmers is due to
this emotion but is absent from those who have been in the business for
generations (eg Tracy's family). I can tell you that even 'real' farmers
get a pang of jealousy if their neighbour's crops look better than
theirs, but they just vow to do better (or not, depending whether looks
are everything) next year. They certainly don't go vitriolic.


-- 
Oz