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To: Srexley who wrote (148356)	5/24/2001 12:55:53 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

Not to be a stickler, but tomato has no "e", but tomatoes does. Well, I think the word is funner when you just forget the T and the O and all that and just spell it 'maters.

To: Srexley who wrote (148356)	5/24/2001 1:10:17 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

See there I got all confused and have left off the E in the plural. I think there are great changes that could be made in our national farming. I don't deny that. And subsidizes(sp?) can be a curse to production. And a blessing. My grandparents were farmers from their entire liniage. They understood both from the practical viewpoint of production and as a way of life. We need someone like that to set policy. Not a business person. And not a politician. And not business person masquerading as a farmer. Someone who understands providing food as a living. That's what a farmer does. It's a living. But a farmer understands that they are providing. They are keeping their people going. And the people know that. The world is strange now. You buy some equiment on credit, which means monthly payments. But most make a "monthly" check. A farmer can lose her whole years money because a late frost killed the peaches. Now, practically speaking, she should take that into account and have money set aside. But if she lives like most... from month to month.. then that year all is lost, and next year no peaches. Yah, we need to make allowances for the fact that farmers lose it all and gain it all depending on the weather. And farmers need to be prepared. It benifits us both.