Posted on 03/11/2024 8:13:30 AM PDT by george76
We don’t need farms. We can buy our food at supermarkets now.
Agreed. Also, we don’t need fossil fuels. Electricity comes out of the walls.
How big were these farms that stopped farming?
Where’s John “Cougar” Mellencamp when we need him?
"The challenges faced by farms of all sizes has raised calls for a robust and comprehensive farm bill..." If you want to REDUCE farm efficiency, get the government more involved.
[We don’t need farms. We can buy our food at supermarkets now.]
Exactly!! Food comes from the grocery store and Hello Fresh!
Who NEEDS farms??? /Liberal Logic
USDA defines a farm as an operation that produced and sold, or normally would have sold...
Are we talking about farmland that had been sitting dormant for years collecting govt subsidies? The ostensible reasons are for: prevent farmers from growing too much food (don't let food prices get too low), or Conservation Reserve Program (fight erosion and such), or now to fight warmageddon?
To get those subsidies you had to "prove" that you would grow food even if you weren't going to really. It may be that some of the farmland "lost" is people making money with it other ways like building houses and such. In other words, I want to know how much of farm land was lost of land that was really used for farming.
[Also, we don’t need fossil fuels. Electricity comes out of the walls.]
Very true. The “holes”!!
The bread basket of the world will soon be a bread-line for handouts - a third world country.
As a school kid I was taught the US had the capacity and knowledge to feed the world. And it was true. Then we let socialist politicians take over to over regulate and control the farmer. - national suicide!!!!
Have we had to import more food or are we still able to feed ourselves?
And we don’t need a Consitiutional Republic or capitalism; the demonKKKrats’ “Democratic Chaos” will do nicely.
Bill Gates is now the biggest private owner of farmland in the US..owns 242,000 acres of agricultural land in 18 states ..
John Malone is biggest overall US landowner, with 2.2 million acres of land..
These are getting turned into Solar farms in our area. Good farmland...it’s a crime. God gave us gifts. We think we’re smarter than God...that’s all this Climate Change fiasco is all about. And of course.....MONEY and POWER.
Solar and windmills destroys farms = by design.. They want us to starve..
Ted Turner has 15 ranches in seven states .. 2 million acres of personal and ranch land, making him the second-largest individual landowner in America.
https://www.cnbc.com/2011/07/12/Celebrity-Owned-Ranches-and-Farms.html
As a former farmer, I would say the most likely scenario is a farmer was ready to retire and there was no one in his family who wanted to take over and so they sold out to developers.
What about all the Property Tax Avoiders that sell a few stacks of “specialty” over priced Firewood (fruit tree trimmings) to claim Farm exemptions?
Lots of 3-5 acre AWFLs and their broods have been doing that for quite some time.
Certainly that’s lots of new unproductive farm land to go along with Gates and the other Land Hoarders.
As a chart in the report showed, the decline in the number of farms was precipitous from 1950 to 1978. The rate of decline since 1978 has been continuous but slower with slight upticks from 1992 to 1994 and agsin from 2006 to 2008. It all makes the headline numbers - from lost from 2017 to 2023 - not a precipitous change but part of the many decades trend.
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