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NFO’s Olson: ‘Can’t produce our way to prosperity’
The National Farmers Organization (NFO) still favors limiting agriculture production and collectively bargaining for a price. The president of the NFO tells Brownfield Ag News that low commodity prices are the biggest issue facing not only his group, but all farmers.
“We can’t seem to produce our way to prosperity,” said Paul Olson, president of the NFO, at that group’s annual convention in Springfield, Missouri. “When you have cheap grain it seems to bleed over into cheap milk and cheap meat, because farmers in general are going to try and capture more money from their grain by putting it through livestock, for example, so this is what’s the domino effect here.”
Discussion at the NFO meeting this week is an attempt to get NFO members’ arms around a solution to over-production of commodities, said Olson, who is an organic dairy farmer at Taylor, Wisconsin.
“Whether it be a grain reserve again that we’re looking at or a growth management plan in dairy,” he said, “I think we need to look at something on a wide scope and get more people involved in it and more support.”
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