JJMR794, in regards to post #49, we'll have to agree to disagree. If your neighbour 60 miles down the road can't find a market for buttons he isn't looking hard enough. You live in a country with over 300 million people. The state of Florida has over 18 million people alone. That's more than half of the population of all of Canada. It takes less than 6 hours to drive from Pensacola to Jacksonville or from Jacksonvile to Miami. In Canada we have more land area and one tenth of the population of the US. It can be an 8 hour drive or more between major cities here. You do what you have to do to sell your stock, be it buttons, beef or barley, even if that means trucking em to the next major center. If my family had thought your way, we'd all still be in Eastern Block Europe. I come from a long line of farmers & mercenaries. You do what ya gotta do to put food on the table.
And Rozzie, feel free to give me your share of the tofu. I'm not a vegetarian, but I love tofu and my birds go crazy for it too.