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<blockquote data-quote="Fogg" data-source="post: 7673923" data-attributes="member: 142725"><p>That's an interesting viewpoint.</p><p></p><p>I read Fast Food Nation a few years back and it goes into detail about how cartels in the US seem to thrive by getting independent producers into debt, then controlling the market, causing despair and despondency amongst those trapped in debt. The pessimist in me has long thought that our processors are striving to go the same way to get to a point where there's more floorspace out there than they need, at which point they're sitting pretty and can say "attention all growers: we're offering peanuts, take it or leave it." What seems to have happened is that renewal and expansion in the industry has grown broadly in line rising demand and that hasn't happened... Well, at least not yet, though the job obviously isn't a route to get rich quick like it might have been 40 odd years ago.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, as good as your idea is, I don't see any real incentive for processors to offer the arrangement you suggest. Why would they? If the investment was an obvious no brainer with near zero risk they'd be doing all the farming themselves. You're right though, reading the above I'm feeling inclined to stick no.1 son on an HGV driving course and keep him the hell away from ag college.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fogg, post: 7673923, member: 142725"] That's an interesting viewpoint. I read Fast Food Nation a few years back and it goes into detail about how cartels in the US seem to thrive by getting independent producers into debt, then controlling the market, causing despair and despondency amongst those trapped in debt. The pessimist in me has long thought that our processors are striving to go the same way to get to a point where there's more floorspace out there than they need, at which point they're sitting pretty and can say "attention all growers: we're offering peanuts, take it or leave it." What seems to have happened is that renewal and expansion in the industry has grown broadly in line rising demand and that hasn't happened... Well, at least not yet, though the job obviously isn't a route to get rich quick like it might have been 40 odd years ago. Anyway, as good as your idea is, I don't see any real incentive for processors to offer the arrangement you suggest. Why would they? If the investment was an obvious no brainer with near zero risk they'd be doing all the farming themselves. You're right though, reading the above I'm feeling inclined to stick no.1 son on an HGV driving course and keep him the hell away from ag college. [/QUOTE]
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