Hmm, re-read your posts. It seems you weren't being rude after all. I'm not sure whether I earlier misinterpreted something or not, either way, ignore that.
Droughts I think are one of the biggest examples of how farmers need to prepare for the future and not overwork the soil. All the farms I've seen are Australian, and they manage to do well even in drought. The Australian rice farmers, however, do not. I have no idea how much water wheat/corn use, so that may or may not be a case of people planting the wrong crop (and yes, I know the subsidies are there to encourage people to plant them, which I agree is stupid).
Going even more off topic, ethanol from biomass isn't necessarily bad. Growing crops specifically for the point of producing ethanol is, but growing crops for some other purpose, and then using the material that would otherwise be wasted for ethanol can be very good. A woodmill I went to used to waste ludicrous amounts of sawdust each year - the transport costs were higher than the value of the sawdust. So they installed an ethanol generator and used it to power part of the plant.
But I still stand by my claim that if you don't have the capital to plan your farm for the future, you probably shouldn't be farming.
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