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Originally Posted by sweetness <font color="0000ff">Source: Associated Press
"This is good news for farmers and bad news for consumers," Brown said. "As grain prices go up, farmers benefit but consumers suffer. Those for whom it will be especially difficult are the 3 billion people who live on $2 or less a day."
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HAHA thats funny farmers benefitting, what everyone doesn't know is that that will not make the farmer anymore money, but actually the middleman more money. the price of grains such as wheat, barley, rye...ETC is lower now than it was in the fifties, more grain being consumed but yet farmers getting less money HUH how does that work. but i bet if hip and the older growers remember the price for a pound of grain back in the day was cheaper than now, well there is your middleman sticking his hand into your wallet. this is how it works the farmer brings his crop into an elevator for them to purchase it, they buy it then send it to a inland terminal(big elevator by the ocean) but here's the kicker the company doesn't pay for the shipping to the inland terminal the farmer does so even less money in the farmers pocket, and then it gets distributed world wide. sorry for the rant but its just that urban people do not realize what happens to the farmers that work hard to feed the world. just my opinion and thanks for reading