Goldfinches like the seed. But the market is in dandelion oil. According to some experts, the farmer will survive only by getting bigger. Others say the farmer will survive if price controls and supports are removed and free market is allowed. Another group says price supports are necessary and removing them would be the ultimate demise of farmers.
Some farmers insist they already died and no one has yet noticed.
A good bunch figure the ones making the laws and controlling the economics are so far removed from real farm life that they don't know what their decisions are doing and won't until agriculture is dead in America. Then there is a small but growing group that believes the future lies in small farms. Dietmann pointed to the growing demands of consumers for farm-fresh food, organic products and niche markets. Rural tourism also provides an array of income options for small farm owners. In November of 1993, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Bovine Growth Hormone, which is also known as BST, for regular and systemic injection into cows to increase milk production.