Dick Locher’s ability to capture the absurdities of life through political cartooning culminated in his winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and garnering top honors from the Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists in the same year.
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braindead08 said, 8 months ago
Yeah, the Tea party is gonna get rid of those costly farm price supports. Yeah, boy howdy.
Radish
said, 8 months ago
Yeah? Well the election will sweep the place clean, snerk.
Michael wme said, 8 months ago
@Radish
Not a chance.
Sometimes, the sacks of fertilizer get replaced with new sacks, but if you know anything about sacks of fertilizer, the new ones stink worse than the old ones.
Clark Kent said, 8 months ago
My Uncle Martin had a farm. He was outstanding in his field.
E I E I O.
Actually, the many regular farmers are suffering while the few politically connected megafarmers are getting rich.
mikefive said, 8 months ago
Something that should be remembered is that agriculture is a strategic weapon.
Ms. Ima said, 8 months ago
@braindead08
Oh, no, not blame the TEA party. I thought anyone with intelligence was above that.
josefw
said, 8 months ago
Silage is primarily corn feed for milk producing cows. Corn is also used to make ethanol. As the government requires more and more ethanol use, less corn goes to the cows, pigs and humans. Not sure if corn can be grown year round in some parts of the world, but in the Midwest it is a seasonal crop. Not only that it’s a rotation crop, you can’t plant corn in the same field year after year.
My take on the toon? The poop heads in Washington are using our vital crop fields to make ethanol instead of food.
dtroutma
said, 8 months ago
It was Conagra, Cargill, and the big industrial giants in “agriculture” who called for corn ethanol, a lot of other sources are smarter, cheaper, and better, though the call on ethanol wasn’t the “brightest” way to go, more conservation of resources would have been. But, those same industrial giants we still call “agriculture” would have freaked as much as the oil giants if they hadn’t won.
onguard said, 8 months ago
Support term Limits or quit complaining about Congress.
Respectful Troll said, 8 months ago
My stepfather intherited his father’s farm in Indiana back in 1967. I liked it, he didn’t. Business suits were preferred to overalls and buicks over john deere. He sold it to the man who had been working the farm for the previous 15 years. Family farms are treasures. Too many farmers have a job off of the land, they have to work in order to afford to grow our food. Agricultural Companies want the best profit, but most farmers want the best product. I want to buy from the man who walks the dirt in which my vegetables grow and meat/dairy animals graze. Not from the NY CEO who doesnn’t know how to boil water. Farmers Grow Americans.
C.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 8 months ago
Oregon lost several hundred farms and 497,000 acres were fallowed due to the “genius” of the Democrats from 2002 to 2007 (USDA farm stats). In 1990, fully 20% of the vegetables eaten in the United States were grown in the Willamette Valley.
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No more.