What Farm Price Support Means to You

. . . ON THE FARM, but the lawyers in charge changed it to avoid a possible copyright violation lawsuit from the producers of ON THE TOWN. This is unfortunate, happening mid-shoot, and what would have been a three-hour updating of Bill Shakespeare's yarn ROMEO AND JULIET was reduced to a few minutes of outtakes and bloopers. The Romeo character here, of course, is the city boy whose doctor sends him to breathe some fresh country air in an attempt to overcome what is now known as tuberculosis. His Juliet counterpart, then, is the farm girl across the street, who must show him the ropes when it comes to the agricultural life. Is Romeo's TB cured, or does his Juliet catch and succumb to it? Sadly, we'll never know.

. . . Canadian agriculture is such a planetary laughing stock that even what passes for the government there spends loads of tax dollars (aka, "Loonies") on films demeaning, ridiculing, lampooning and slighting any losers trying to farm. WHAT FARM PRICE SUPPORT MEANS TO YOU illustrates how it's come to pass that one of the globe's ten largest nations has never produced a significant crop of anything. Only total buffoons take up agriculture on such icy and infertile soil, as virtually nothing can grow within the Canadian Permafrost. What water there is tends to flow backwards, and it is far easier to fill buckets from the liquid-repelling ground than to soak this wasteland with any form of irrigation. This picture stands silently mute, because it would be too heartlessly depressing to voice the obvious Truth: NO amount of price support can conjure up a profitable farm in Canada!