Farmers and ranchers are both hard working commodities speculators with the government, the weather, the markets seemingly all working against them. When they have a bumper crop the bottom falls out of the market; when they can?t grown anything the market goes sky high; the courts won?t let them have the water they need because of some worthless minnow that lives in the stream.

God bless them, given half a chance they can produce enough food to feed us and the rest of the world.