Posted by MF Poor on June 16, 2012 at 07:41:35 from (75.88.169.237):
In Reply to: Bigger Bigger Bigger Farms posted by TraditionalMidwestFarmer on June 15, 2012 at 19:14:15:
Gonna say some things now that probably won't be well recieved by some. I don't even like it myself. But reality is what it is.
Like it or not, farming is going to go bigger and bigger. It's no different than other business'. Everyone has access to the same technology and the same markets. The only way to get a competitive advantage is to grow the operation. And farming is a competitive business, especially so to the big guys.
What we consider a "small farm" these days might have been a HUGE operation just 50 years ago. And times are ever changing. Don't you suppose stage coach drivers in the 1890's thought their jobs would be around forever? How about the village blacksmith? But times changed. They were left in the dust when those times change. It's EITHER change with the times, OR be left sitting along the roadside. There will always be a place for smaller "niche market" operations, but the day of raising a family on the income of a 100 acre grain farm are in the rear view mirror, like it or not.
Granted, most of us long for the days when we could make a living on a small place. But face the facts, the big guys are slowly but surely changing the face of farming.
The 410 acres dad raised our family on seemed like (and was) a big place back in the 50's and 60's. The home place is now just a single field and a small part of an operation that would have seemed unimaginable to me when I was growing up. I don't see this trend reversing itself any time soon. We don't have to like it, but by darn, we might as well start to accept it.
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