LOL man are you off on this. In the early 70's I worked on a couple of farms. The small one was 2500 acres. The big one was 28,000. Just how big was the King ranch? 800,000 to 1 million acres? It's true that many areas back then had folks farming 120-160 or so that are now gone. It ain't coming back. It ain't the BTO's who caused this either. Yes they took advantage but they didn't cause it.
Several factors came into play. One was the farm crisis of the 80's that saw an end to someone making an OK living with 160 and 30 cows. Now a farmers kids had no option but to move on as the farm wasn't big enough to support 2 families. 20 years later dad wanted to retire and JR had a good job in town and wasn't giving it up. So dad sold out. Who was there at the time with the financial wherewithal to pick up that small farm? Or they rented it out and who was there with cash in hand? And those who rented the land out are now dying. JR no longer has any draw to the land so it goes on the market. That's exactly what we are seeing in our area. And who has the financial backing to buy those properties up? Not the little guy. Only the BTO's can do that. One in particular here is doing that right now. Trouble is he's a very nice guy.
Add in peoples basic wants and desires. They wanted a nice house, nice car/truck, nice stuff like furniture and TV's. They couldn't have that on 160 acres. So that made it time to get a job and rent out or sell off the land.
NO! Everyone large and small deserves equal treatment! If they can't make it so be it. When you start giving all businesses large and small government subsidized insurance against failure then come back and talk to me. Heck when they started those programs way back then there were large farms. Just a lot of areas didn't have large farms.
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