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Ag officials: Drastic drop in U.S. farms over 4 decades causing pain in rural areas
The Center Square ^ | Oct 17, 2023 | Andrew Hensel

Posted on 10/20/2023 10:22:13 AM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 10/20/2023 10:22:13 AM PDT by george76
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Why is he surprised? He runs the department.


2 posted on 10/20/2023 10:24:33 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Biden handlers targeting small businesses the same way Stalin targeted the Kulaks during the holodomor..

Biden handlers not only targeting small business truckers, also targeting family farms, manufacturing and restaurants ..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/4183151/posts


3 posted on 10/20/2023 10:27:36 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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So having more then tripled operation costs for small farmers with idiotically bad energy polices, the Biden regime wants to cry about how tough things are for small farmers?

BEST thing the Biden regime could do for farmers is mass resign today


4 posted on 10/20/2023 10:30:49 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: george76

It’s worldwide, and it’s not good.

I learned a lot of valuable lessons spending summers on my Aunt and Uncle’s farm.

Life and death.

You won’t have a good harvest if you don’t put in the work.

You don’t get to choose where the rain or hail falls.

We are governed by people who know nothing but city life.


5 posted on 10/20/2023 10:30:56 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: george76

Lost? How about some details. Were they combined into larger farms? Sold for urban development or energy production? Abandoned to wilderness? The “solution”, if there needs to be one, is different for each case. This looks like a case of agriculture bureaucrats setting themselves on fire to get more cash.


6 posted on 10/20/2023 10:31:26 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: george76

I’m in north central Indiana. Some of the best cropland there is because of the soil and the fact it doesn’t need irrigation

They are currently building, and proposing ten and ten of thousands of acres of solar panels

A lot of the leaseholders here are people who live elsewhere, but inherited the family farm

When this fad is over, the panel will go, but the structures and infrastructure will stay

Even once removed, it will take several years for that soil to get back to its potential


7 posted on 10/20/2023 10:31:30 AM PDT by digger48
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To: george76; Roman_War_Criminal; SaveFerris

...When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not damage the oil and the wine.”...


8 posted on 10/20/2023 10:33:46 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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JP Morgan Chase CEO - Jaime Dimon recommends Seizing Private Property for Wind Farms..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4183174/posts


9 posted on 10/20/2023 10:36:53 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: blueunicorn6

How much of the shrinkage in the number of farms is due to market conditions versus actions by federal governments under both Republicans and Democrats, even Reagan and Trump, that favored large agri businesses as opposed to family farms? The founders of this Republic, especially Thomas Jefferson, saw this country as being a mostly agricultural land, with the entire continent covered by small farms. They distrusted large cities and urban life.


10 posted on 10/20/2023 10:37:51 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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many people would like to have small farms but the taxes and regulations.....

we will rue the day we chased off the small farms...

11 posted on 10/20/2023 10:38:35 AM PDT by cherry
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even having a small garden, its a lot of work..every day....and it starts when you plant your first seed, to transplanting to a larger container, to putting it in the ground, nurturing it and fertilizing it and adding mulch and weeding and staking and finally the harvest which is a whole lot of work as well...


12 posted on 10/20/2023 10:40:43 AM PDT by cherry
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farmland and forest land is being gobbled up by developers....the land is more valuable as a condo coomplex then growing beans and tomatoes....


13 posted on 10/20/2023 10:41:55 AM PDT by cherry
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To: george76

The small family farms can’t compete against the super sized family farms.


14 posted on 10/20/2023 10:44:37 AM PDT by Armscor38
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To: digger48

That is awful! What a waste of good cropland. We are fighting the takeover of the panels and windmills in Michigan, too.


15 posted on 10/20/2023 10:49:35 AM PDT by madison10 (He watching over Israel slumbers not, nor sleeps.)
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To: george76

All by design.


16 posted on 10/20/2023 10:52:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Wallace T.

Large Argi-Businesses are no different than Soviet-style Kolkhozes.


17 posted on 10/20/2023 10:54:39 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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We beat back a windfarm near me 10 years ago

Lots of non leaseholders affected and a 10 hour, overflowing gym meeting, we convinced the Board of Zoning Appeals to adopt a Property Value Guarantee

The developer swore up and down that it would have no effect on others, but the minute that was slapped on them, they packed up and left town


18 posted on 10/20/2023 10:56:01 AM PDT by digger48
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A lot of farmers here were smitten with the money they get from leases.

Our county slipped a windfarm through when residents knew little about them.

We’re in excavating and made a crapload of money from farmers who suddenly were getting those big checks each year

But the next proposed one pit neighbor against neighbor and family against family. It got really ugly

One big family I know with several thousand acres were split.

3 brothers control most of it. 2 went to Purdue with ag degrees, other went to IU Business and became a CPA. The family is his only clients

He spends his time looking to get government subsidies any way he can

A new baby born, it automatically gets a farm an becomes a corporation, which then gets its own subsidy

He’s always been quite open about telling me this


19 posted on 10/20/2023 11:10:09 AM PDT by digger48
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You’re damn right. My input costs have soared for diesel fuel, fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide. The grain markets, however, have tanked. Only 13 cents of every dollar spent at the grocery store goes to the American farmer/rancher. Somebody up the chain is making a shit load of money, but it ain’t the American farmer. Couple the above with two years of drought here in central Kansas and there isn’t a whole lot of money in the country right now. Oh well, the American farmer is the eternal optimist. “Next year will be better.”


20 posted on 10/20/2023 11:13:47 AM PDT by kawhill (kawhill)
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