Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture under Nixon and Ford, "Plant from fence post to fence post,"

U. S. Wheat Associates (click here)

That policy was begun about 1975. That has been the policy of the USA since and it has cost many family farms to end their farming and sell their land.

Now, with acre after acre planted (with the exception of very wetland) fence post to fence post farmers are supposed to decide how to survive the loss of their markets.

It looks like farmers will be selling their land again.

July 31, 2019

By Adriana Belmonte

A farmer surveys a wheat field near Beulah, N.D.

The White House (click here) recently announced that it would be providing an additional $16 billion in aid to American farmers affected by the trade war between the U.S. and China.

But the problem for American farmers has becomes bigger than something a bailout can fix.

“This trade thing is what’s brought on by the president and it’s really frustrating because he took away all of our markets,” Bob Nuylen, a farmer from North Dakota who grows spring wheat and sunflowers, told Yahoo Finance. “We live in an area where we’re kind of in the middle of nowhere. It costs us a lot of money — over $1 a bushel to get our grain to markets.”...