The Election

4H's View

     The majority of  people in 4H are agriculturalists with small family owned farms. Small farms are in jeopardy of losing everything. With taxes being high, the cost of crops have gone down dramatically leaving them practically bankrupt. This years election will have an impact on 4H no matter who becomes President. As conventional farming grows, organic farming withers. This has a big impact on family owned farms. The Columbus famliy owns a farm on my road and is activally involved in 4H. When asked how the upcoming election would affect them they replied, "Mitt says that farmers and ranchers are the backbone of America, and when he was governer of Massachutsetts he made wise decsions concerning agriculture. I hope that he will make better decions concering us if he is elected in the future." However, the Bower family also owns a farm on my road and also involoved in 4H. When asked how the upcoming election would affect them thye replied "Obama gave 170 million to farmers effected by drought and ordered the government to buy tons of pork, lamb, chicken, and catfish. This showed that he really cared about us and the quality of Amercian food." So how will the elecion effect 4H? We'll just have to wait and see.