Now what we've known all along is official - Dems Party of Abortion & Homosexuals

Ain't God good to Pennsylvania? Ain't He, fellers?

I think I remember a farmers market right in downtown Dallas...right?

 

Yeah--no offense taken. Fifty years ago you could drive out of town a mile or two and find someone selling a large brown grocery sack of three dozen ears of corn for one dollar.

Tomatoes are good, too. So are Indiana strawberries, but they are small.

 

I know of a guy who set up a sweet corn stand in a "yuppie" suburb of Philadelphia. He had his corn for sale at $2.75 per dozen, and sales were mediocre at best. Then he got the idea to reset the price to $7.50 per dozen, and it sold like crazy because now people thought it must be something special.

 

There is a yuppified farmer's market downtown, but the prices are higher,and the quality control lower than you can get in a lot of supermarkets.

There are a few good ones in the suburbs.

 

In Japan, there is a cultural attachment to rice farming, and the farmers are subsidized to a high degree. US rice would be much cheaper, but there is a huge import duty on it.

U.S. rice is therefore very expensive in Japan. The Japanse public, thinking that it must be somehow better than Japanese rice, prefers it and buys it at the higher price.

"Despite billions of dollars in subsidies and protective rice tariffs as high as 490 percent, young rural dwellers do not think the government will maintain today's economic fantasyland in which a farmer can earn $50,000 a year from three acres."
http://www.newfarm.org/international/gleanings/november/jp_future.shtml

Maybe I should move to Japan and raise rice.