Posted by Dave from MN on January 16, 2008 at 05:52:57 from (67.133.91.236):
In Reply to: how much is left? posted by cat236 on January 16, 2008 at 02:34:42:
I dont think there is any one in a political office than will make a stand for the Small American Family Farm, thus the trend for small farms turning into housing, corperate farms grabbing up the rest. Some day we WILL see a world wide food shortage, some day agriculture WILL be one of the top income careers, but small farmers will be a small percentage that will reap the benifits because there will be so few and politics will make it a red tape nightmare for them. All we can do is hope and pray that MORE younger, and older people start up small farms again here and there and eventually reverse the trend. Many actually are doing that, I am one, but I am in highly pressured area for development, housing, commercial, and not 3/4 mile away they zoned a 40 acre peice as industrial. So I am gonna farm y little peice and few others untill I know what I am doing and I can sell this place for enough to buy a much bigger farm, in a county far from this one, and hopefully that one can be handed down to my boys, or the daughter. It weird to see a house for sale on 5 acres across the road( which isnt selling,YAY!) with an asking price more than I payed for my land, home, and layer barn combined.
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