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tennessee | Plowboy I promise you I work more than 3 or 4 days a year. I'm not looking for an argument here just saying that the economies of scale are much different today than 40 yrs. ago. I, for one, would like to be able to make it on my 300 acres like it was then. My farms are spread out over 20 miles and are mostly small places, that's just the way it is here, much different than Kansas I'm sure. Just getting everything moved from one place to another is a job in itself. As far as expanding so I could live off the farming is just not possible here at this time. Most people that own land have cattle on it and there is very little available crop land to get. Large farms are going to ruin the rural landscape probably in my lifetime. Almost all of the small farmers are gone around here and you'll just have to forgive me but I don't like that one bit. Some of us don't have the resources to become very large farmers and don't want to take on the tremendous amount of risk that comes with it. I'm not hating on large operations, I know that's just the way things are going and will continue to go that way, but I guess I'm stuck in the past a little bit and like it that way. Have a good one. | |
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The unsugared reality of agriculture today
