Billy the shrinking farm numbers has been happening for over 150 years now. Just about as soon as the prairies where homesteaded the farms started getting bigger.
Also the profitability of farming has made the areas with the best dirt have a tremendous advantage. If you are in a marginal area your going to have a tough time making ends meet. Also if you do not have an Agricultural infrastructure where you farm you are fighting a losing battle. How many areas only have one place to buy farm inputs??? Maybe 50-100 mile trip to sell farm commodities?? Then local zoning regulations that are anti modern farming. That all adds up to make farming a dead horse in many metro areas.
Then you are within driving distance of a major metro area. Your ground is worth 10-20 times for development as it is for farming. So how would anyone keep farming then. Farm the ground and make maybe a $100-200 per acre profit or sell it for $100K. You can go else where and buy ten acres for every one you sold.
Then you have those that want to live in the country in their new house but do not want anyone else to have a chance at one. They want the farmers to keep the country looking like a post card but they do not want to have any cost involved in keeping it that way.
I am glad we are far enough away from any metro area for development to ever be an issue. It makes too many enemies out of people.
I checked here on our PBS cannel the show is not being shown tonight.
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