Storm Clouds Over A Wheat Field

The American Midwest is often called "The Breadbasket Of The World", and with good reason - wheat, corn and other grains produced by our farmers help feed many people on every continent. If every American farmer simply stopped producing food products, people all around the world would be adversely affected - not just Americans.

The grain fields of the Midwest are shining symbols of one of the things that make this country so great - the American farmer's ability and willingness to work from daylight till dark so the rest of us can have food on our tables!

Every year it becomes harder and harder for the farmers to make a decent profit with which to feed their own families. Most of them don't work the land to get rich...they do it because their parents did it and their grandparents did it and so on right back to the dawn of our great nation. It's the only life they know...and the life they love.

The United States Of America was built on the backs of her farmers. Our growing nation has always had an ever-increasing need for food, and the farmers have responded by growing more and more on a limited supply of farmland. Innovations in modern farm equipment and hard-earned experience combined with costly research help ensure that they can continue to meet the world's growing need for food.

But there is a problem - the spectacular success of our farmers has resulted in greater competition among producers and tighter profit margins for farm products. As profit margins decrease, so does the ability of many farmers to stay in business. Many family farms that have been handed down for generations are being shut down and sold off to developers. If this trend continues, America and the rest of the world will be the losers in the end.

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