[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the ping. Too many centralized farming operations today.

[Smokin' Joe]

I went to college in the Shenandoah Valley--huge poultry farms there, too. It is an operation that runs on the economy of scale, and those farmers generally take serious measures to prevent just the sort of thing going on with these farms.

Turkeys, though, spend a fair amount of time outside, and other (wild) birds can bring the disease in from elsewhere.

It is hard to be a small producer and still comply with all the regulations and rules involved...so, big farming operations.

[Olog-hai]

Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

Ninth plank of communism, from the Manifesto. Take note that the centralization problem with respect to farming hit China before it hit here.