As a farmer's partner I keep hearing and reading how there is a world shortage of food supplies which will only get worse in the coming years as the world population grows and there will be more hungry mouths to feed. Yet people expect farmers to keep farming - how I ask. This year our input costs have sky rocketed and now we are told that grain prices have taken a dive. The season is turning sour pretty quickly in a lot of areas and that's making it really tough. Farmer's aren't asking for a hand out all we want is a fair price for our grain and livestock etc. A price which reflects the increase in our input cost. If people want farmers to save the starving population then someone had better do something to help the farmers because with the way prices are there are a lot of farmers who are starving.