The IOWA FARMLAND rush continues on...........

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Laserboy, do you have any idea why farmers in South America are "kicking our butts" as you say?? Or are you just spouting rhetoric that you read off of some website??

BTW, the world would starve without American farmers.

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The same reason that the Chinese are kicking our butts in manufacturing? They have cheaper land, cheaper costs, and cheaper labor. They also have better work ethic and business sense. Oh yeah, and they have better land and year round rainfall. Does that about cover it?

I know this is hard to imagine, but farmers in other parts of the world are actually able to make money by growing food at an economically viable price and then selling it to other people for a profit (as opposed to making money by defrauding taxpayers or apparently flipping real estate, like it is done here).

BTW, the world would have cheaper food and less taxes without American farmers.