Posted by Fixerupper on October 19, 2012 at 19:12:16 from (100.42.82.164):
In Reply to: Re: Corn harvest mess posted by bobbyboywestcentIN on October 19, 2012 at 18:21:42:
Yep, the competition is knocking the young farmer out of ever having a chance to farm on his own unless he has plenty of family land to work with that his siblings don't want to sell out from under him. I'm certainly not defending big farming, but I am defending the good job of farming most of them IN THIS AREA do.
What we are seeing in my neck of the woods is the owner of a large hog feeding company buying land right and left so he can grow his own feed. With the high grain prices I can see his philosophy even though I don't like what he's doing. With land going for 10,000/acre or more here he has to have investors lined up somewhere and I'm suspecting some of them are over seas. What I'm afraid of is large corporations buying land so they can control the expenses and income from the land clear to the supermarket. The ones actually doing the physical farming won't have ownership and neither will their supervisors so the pride in doing a good job will go out the window. Jim
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