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southern MN | The big managed farms have paperwork shufflers running them. They are better equiped to find loopholes, apply political pressure, and otherwise have plans on paper - or can adapt to new paperwork - to survive a financial bubble burst. They are used to dealing with ebb & flow and trying to squeeze more out of the rules, rather than farming the land. So they are equipped to find a way through, doesn't matter who gets left behind.
Smaller land owners renting out, and mid sized farms are the ones that bear the brunt of the problems and unable to adjust to the new ways. They were counting on the coop being there, as it gets busted by a few big bankruptsies; or the govt programs helping everyone, not just a few; or their landowners working with them; or etc. But all that goes oyut the window as everyone looksd out for themselves.
Small farms typically are fairly stable and weather the problem, but there tend to be less of them as they will work for a time with no income, and folks throw in the towel on that.
So on the other side of the bubble burst, there ends up more large farms run by basicly the same people; and a few less but stable micro farms, and a real chill on the mid-sized farms as they are eaten up to fund the bubble.
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Asking about tough farm economy times
