alt Hacker Newswould this actually be enough such that farmers have to sell their land and new small family farmers cam get started?
or only a new set of bankruptcies and the same farmers stay on?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xon9A5_4tQw&pp=ygUKZmFybSB0YWJ... was very illuminating
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bluGill • today at 1:46 AM
Small farmers are not good policy despite the romance. A large farmer can afford soil investments that small ones cannot
It’s likely the land would be far more valuable as something else.
Small family farms, while romanticized, have all the problems of any small business competing with larger professionalized businesses; consistency in operations, consistency in output quality, access to resources - including people and machines.
Additionally, for their own operational simplicity big buyers prefer interacting with as few suppliers as possible - so, market forces have been driving consolidation for decades.