Traverse City, MI (AP) - Area farmers are reporting this Summers annual crop of Babies has grown to larger than projected numbers."We may see as much as 25% over early year forcasts for the harvest" said area farmer Jack Neilsen with Neilson's Baby Farms Inc. "I'm guessing the additional pacifiers and puppies have helped grow the production."
Baby farms all over the area are expecting larger than normal returns on their crops this year. This is great news for expectant parents who have been worried that previous years meager returns might leave them childless for yet another season.
"My husband and I have been waiting for 3 years now to get a baby, but, not having tens of thousands of dollars to afford a locally grown baby for our family, we've been forced to wait" said expectant mother Joanna Gimes. "We are hoping that this year will bring us the child we've always dreamed of."
But, not everyone is happy about the large growth in the local baby farming markets. The U.S. Department of Baby Farming alerted farmers and potential parents of a possible tax on locally grown babys in an effort to help increase import babies, which are taxed at a much larger margin than the local kind.
"I think thats a complete load of horse puckey" says farmer Neilsen, "they think they can just run in here and tell me how to farm these babies... well, they can't."
Government taxes and whoopla haven't effected any expecting parents desires towards the farmed babies at all though, as potential parents site the great benefits of the local brand of baby.
"The benefits of the local baby are just much greater than the import version. It keeps the jobs local and keeps the service local, not to mention Made is the USA quality of the product" says Mr. Neilsen.
In the meantime, farmers are working overtime to bring in this years crop of babies before they miss their nap time and get cranky and spoiled.
