Over two hundred years ago, our founding fathers established a nation that has survived to this very day. At that time, over ninety percent of the nation’s population was involved in production agriculture. Today less that one percent of our nation’s population produce agricultural products. It’s ironic how a nation that was founded on revenue from agriculture products, now pays so little attention to the minority that is the American farmer.

It is hard to believe in that amount of time, that the economic reliance on agriculture products had decreased to it’s present day status. Agricultural products are now taken for granted by the majority of today’s population as well as by the government. Involvement by the government has ruined the market for crops grown in the United States. “When the grain embargo was placed on Russia in the mid 1980’s, the grain market fell almost fifty percent”(Bierig, H, personal communication, February 25, 2004). Prior to the embargo, wheat was over five dollars per bushel, after the embargo, grain was rarely seen over three dollars and has been at the same level ever sense.

As we enter the twenty-second century, the fam

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