Stick your "tin foilers." And it is all done with subsidy that ends up in a corparations pocket. Without the subsidy the corn and bean racket bellies up the "family" farmer goes to work as a greeter and the corparation cuts out the middle man and farms millions of acres for greater "effiencies." Which will be so important to America that it will become a synthesis of government and business otherwise known as Facism, price setting on a scale that the legacy air carries could have only wished for. I'll take the "hippie" Amish farmer and others who realize farming is a cultural based undertaking versus the industrial model anyday. I grew up on a farm in the Illinois I know the racket.
80% of all farm welfare ends up in the hands of the large farming cooperatives. They use the money to undercut the smaller farmers or to buy them out. It's a travesty that should be corrected.
Without the subsidy the corn and bean racket bellies up the "family" farmer goes to work as a greeter and the corparation cuts out the middle man and farms millions of acres for greater "effiencies.
Small family farms will have a hard time surviving unless they are successful in filling a niche. For the American farmer to compete worldwide, there will continue to be consolidation to achieve greater productivity.
Which will be so important to America that it will become a synthesis of government and business otherwise known as Fascism,
With 50,000 farms producing about 50% of the total production, I'd say we're a long way from any oligopoly, like the legacy carriers, or anything that can remotely be construed as Fascism. You and I will be long gone before anything like that can occur so you might want to remove the tin foil in the meantime. You'll be much more comfortable.
I'll take the "hippie" Amish farmer and others who realize farming is a cultural based undertaking versus the industrial model anyday
Not if you want to feed 300 million domestically and compete in the international market.
I grew up on a farm in the Illinois I know the racket.
Then you should know better. No excuses.