Sodfarmer,

I think you mistake a complaint about the attitude of many farmers as an attack on farmers. I, and I suspect most of, us have a great deal of respect for farmers. What I don't like is those farmers who complaining about welfare and highway taxes, with no clue that they too receive many forms of government welfare. When, in fact, most rural areas receive considerably more tax benefits than what they pay for.

Sure we have the cheapest food in history, but that is, at least in part, because our taxes pay for, subsidies, price supports, and fallow land programs.

Sure many farmers that receive corporate welfare are big corporations, but many are like my Idaho farming friend who always cackles when he asks us, "What crop should get paid not grow this year."