[gghd]

Farm land is currently an investment opportunity. A government rule that >increases farming costs may put more family farms on the market.
A lot of things done under the guise of ‘the government is here to help you’ are really just opportunities for politicians&cronies to make money.

[Venturer]

Farm land in Maryland where I live is either left in the family or purchased by Doctors or Lawyers who have the bucks to buy . No farm in this state that I know of could buy the land ,pay the mortgage and fertilizer bill, and grow enough to to make a decent living. We have a few farmers who are big time and work acreage for others who have given up, but where I live there isn’t a former farmer around who hasn’t had to find outside work,or take on acreage under a lease.

[RedMonqey]

A government rule that >increases farming costs may put more family farms on the market.

Very true.

It's a triple threat.
It appeases the Nanny statists and intended to show Obama is concerned about kids.
It helps Corporate "farms"by driving up the costs of small farmers and thereby eliminating their competition.
It drives farmland on the real estate market when land is permanently lost for agriculture


But don't be fooled that republicans are necessarily farmer's friend

Back when Nixon's Agricultural Secretary Earl Buttz told farmers to "Get Big or Get Out" and set farm policies accordingly.

Lots of family farms were lost in the seventies by such policies as much as by inflation and gas shortages.

Bad, bad time for farmers...