| white shadow - 4/4/2020 09:53
I respectfully disagree. The BTO's survive on crop insurance especially the Preventive Plant provision. The BTO's are farming more than they can handle, a wet year comes along and they can't get it all planted because they are to big and spread out and Preventive Plant bails them out.
A higher percentage of STOs revenue comes from gov money than BTOs. Gov payments have been keeping STOs in business plus the fact that its possible in the midwest to farm a decent amount of acres and have a full time job in town which is unrealistic in other parts of the country. If BTO is defined by people on this board just about everyone who farms in the south is a BTO
BTOs will have an economy of scale advantage and be able to push smaller guys out the same way Wal-Mart pushed mom and pop stores out |
Agriculture was first industry socialized.........
