Dairy farming is dying. After 40 years, I'm done.

[Dickster]

39. Some misconceptions about farmers...

First of all, most people that live in rural areas are not farmers. The number of actual farmers is at an all time low. Most of the people who live in rural areas work at other jobs.
Secondly, most of the time reporters need info about farming, they go to the Farm Bureau, who purport to be the largest farm organization in the country. But they like to count all of the people who buy their insurance as “farmers” when asked about numbers. An awful lot of non farmers buy insurance from them. They are by far the most conservative of the farm orgs, one hardly ever sees quotes or info from the Farmers Union in national media.
I think farmers in general are much more evenly divided, just like the rest of the country. And I pretty sure an awful lot of them, like me, are disgusted by the terrible Trump policies that have peeled $2.50 bucks off the price of soybeans. There is a huge amount of red ink this year due to a drop in yields and the lower price. There will be farmers who don’t get financing next year. It is extremely difficult to cash flow soybeans at this time of year when farmers are talking to bankers.