Ag officials: Drastic drop in U.S. farms over 4 decades causing pain in rural areas

The Center Square ^ | Oct 17, 2023 | Andrew Hensel

[virgil]

Land is so expensive to get and to hang on to. There are real disconnects with the bubble heads in DC.

[Wallace T.]

The kohlhozes are in turn similar to the large landed estates owned by the European aristocracy in the Middle Ages. Any centralized authority system, whether Communist, fascist, or feudal, wants to centralize the means of production as a means of social control. It is not Austrian economics, but antitrust laws serve a purpose of preventing the concentration of economic power, which in turn influences political power.

[Wallace T.]

A century ago, the major cities were surrounded by truck farms that provided much of the vegetable and dairy, as well as some of the fruit and meat. However, regions of the country, such as California for vegetables and fruit, Wisconsin for cheese, North Carolina for poultry, etc.

My paternal grandmother was born in Queens, New York, in 1892, at a time that what would become the New York City borough was largely farmland. The market was in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Queens and most of Long Island have long since become urbanized. However, far eastern Long Island and the Hudson Valley north of Interstate 84 could easily become major producers of farm products given farm friendly Federal and state governments.

[fso301]

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Has actual agricultural production decreased? Are farms simply more efficient so less land is required to satisfy market demand without collapsing the price via overproduction? Lot of questions to answer.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Appropriate for this thread and the times we’re in.

Food doesn’t just show up in grocery stores.

[kawhill]

Yes to # 2, small, really, but it matters somewhat.

[minnesota_bound]

I am guessing that gov’t is favoring importing food and throwing up obstacles blocking growing food here.

[SaveFerris]

These idiots are definitely trying to bring on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - I say the first rider is the Antichrist.



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[SaveFerris]

Remember Democrat Andrew Cuomo: you just dig a hole and put a seed in it

If there’s any farmer that votes Democrat after that.......

[SaveFerris]

[It’s worldwide, and it’s not good.]

Cripple the food supply worldwide - then make sure that people can only shop grocery stores that take the Digital Currency and the approved Mark, err, "tattoo" - Control the masses by using food as a weapon - it was one of the more remarkable things that Omen II got correct

[SaveFerris]

[All by design.]

[bert]

For us sight challenged

[SaveFerris]

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Good idea 💡

[bert]

And Yet........... our Farmers Markets have lots of vendors selling all sorts of stuff they have produced.

And there are also lots of customers that come out to buy what they have to sell

Further......... many “working folk” don’t have time to actually cook and buy all sorts of prepared food

Last week I traveled through Alabama and Georgia.......... there is mile after mile after mile of un used cropland

[SaveFerris]

Robert Foxworth as Paul Buher in "Damien: Omen II"- while not Biblically-accurate - it has a few interesting scenes; like this one

Our profitable future ... lies also in famime

"Our profitable future ... lies also in famime"

People out there comparing Thorn Industries to Monsanto - heh

[metmom]

It’s their own dastardly policies.

Who couldn’t see that one coming, but likely it’s been part of the plan all along.

[tomkat]

They distrusted large cities and urban life.

Me too.

[Paul R.]

Well, this is interesting, because around me, quite a bit of land is being cleared and turned (turned back?) into cropland. All except for what was the field across the road which has been turned into storage & pre-shipment processing (5 silos, the 5th built a month ago - dang, those go up fast. The 1st 4 went up 2 summers ago, IIRC.) Corn, barley, and soybeans.

This activity seems to be mostly two large local family-operated farms, one of which is run by a fellow I’d guess is in his mid-late 40’s. BIG new house down the road from us. Quite a bit of equipment is based in “out buildings” and barns there too, although two big shelters protect equipment and / or trucks across the road from us too.

Almost all the uncultivated* land in this region is in parks, refuges, preserves, private woodlots, or National Forests.

*Mostly forested, with some harvesting in the woodlots & National Forests.

[Paul R.]

I’d also add that since 1981, in my area quite a bit of private land has gone to parks, refuges, preserves, private woodlots, or National Forests.