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Bullshit. Large tractors mean mega-farms? What does that mean? Can small families not own mega farms anymore? I come from a farm family. Family owned farm. They have huge tractors. They’re successful, lots of land.
Seriously, what kind of observation is this really?
A small farm isnt small when they have many hundreds or thousands of acres...I'm not against big farms, but I don't see a lot of protesting going on here in solidarity with the farmers protesting in Europe etc...
Just as tired of hearing the small farm card being played...
Apparently your definition of small farms is different than mine, but I lived abroad where almost all the rural people are small farmers with land where they grow food for their families and have some cash crops to cover their need for a bit of cash.
A long time ago there was a big push to add a 5 cents a pound tax on Sugarcane to help clean up the Everglades polution. I'm not for or against that, but the ads against the tax portrayed how the small farmer would be hurt. What small farmers? 3 families own all of it.
Again i'm not against big farmers, they were smart and sucked on the government subsidy teat. Therefore under control by the government, which can punish them if they don't toe the line.
By the way Scarecrow by John Mellencamp is a favorite tune of mine, and expresses the plight of farmers quite nicely,
You might want to familiarize yourself more with American agriculture then. Most all of the farms are owned by families. There’s far more land in America to be farmed than elsewhere in the world. There’s entire farm towns and counties where absolutely everyone is either a farmer or rancher or trucker.
Er... Russia has a lot more farm land, but unused.
You named one country, and the only country, with comparable arable land to the US and Canada. But no, it isn’t “a lot more”. What is your point? You’re really just stretching to argue now.
https://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kimball/Field.ggr.htm