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To: RC one
There's plenty of land in California's San Joaquin Valley lying fallow.

Actually, there's good farmland throughout North America which is not producing aggressively. 10s of thousands of gentleman "farms" and vast acreages doing little.

Farmland is still relatively cheap too.

4 posted on 01/30/2011 8:50:30 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Mariner

I don’t think farmland is cheap at all, quite the opposite in fact. I think government subsidies have allowed farm land to remain overpriced for a long time. We don’t want our farmers going bankrupt but, at the saem time, it sucks that because they are deemed “too big to fail”, the price of land is allowed to remain artificially inflated. And then you have the megafarms taking full advantage of this which further diminishes the ability of smaller scale farmers to buy land and compete.


6 posted on 01/30/2011 9:43:29 PM PST by RC one (Come get some.)
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