Posted by gregk on December 12, 2011 at 17:49:41 from (75.105.32.39):
In Reply to: Myth Or True? posted by Rdandersom on December 12, 2011 at 07:08:55:
The main reason why there aren't many small farms left is mostly because of quicker ways of doing things. Let me explain, if it took 10 hours to plow 10 acres with a team of horses( I know this isn't possible but it makes for easy math), or 1 hour to plow 10 acres with a large tractor and plow then you have 9 hours to make money other ways. On the other side of the coin, now you HAVE to work more hours to pay for the tractor. So since you can cover more acres faster now you need more acres, and then you end up buying newer and larger equipment so you can do the same job faster. Which then turns out you need/have more time to farm more and make more money. Basically you can make it either way if you work hard all day every day, it's just physically easier doing it the newer way and probably more efficient. I was reading in a Successful Farming magazine from 1950 how some of the smaller farmers weren't pulling their weight since they only farmed 10or 20 acres and they used more than they produced. The authors argument was that they should move to somewhere else and let the larger/ more efficient farmers farm the ground and help feed the world that way.
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