We can’t rely on government to solve all our problems

The articles about the nurseries trying to get federal help is always on the shoulders of the taxpayers.

Not because I’m a dairy farmer, but each farming operator in the state has lost money due to the freeze and drought. To be honest, milk prices are the highest I can remember. The milk support price to the farmers really helps in thin times but the price we receive today doesn’t support the price of fuel, feed prices and equipment.

With produce and canned goods being produced in other countries, what happens when these countries stop producing our food? Every time I see a farm cut up and homes built where corn grew, it makes me wonder what happens when we have homes built on all the land where crops once grew.

In reality, a grain producer cannot justify land costs today. If and when a farm expands, land or equipment costs can send any farm into bankruptcy. All it takes is a year or two with the weather we have had lately.

With all the manufacturing going out of the country and jobs going south, how are the American workers going to earn enough to feed their families in the future?

Have we, the American people, become dependent on the federal government to solve our problems? I see the federal government at the base of a lot of the problems in the United States today.

Miles Snider

Victor J. Young Road

Rock Island