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MichiganPacker2 posted:
fightphoe93 posted:
ammo posted:

No, just worried about many of my farmer friends and family members who have been having financial problems for a long time.  Oh, and farm suicides are up dramatically. maybe you have investigated some? 

It is very sad that it seems like family farms are extremely hard to keep going and the only thing that can be done in some cases is to sell the farm and land to a corporation.  There's a certain character to family farms that corporate farms can't duplicate.  The more family farms that disappear, we lose a little bit of history and character with it.

I grew up on a family dairy farm that had been in the family for 130 years. My father forbid any of us from working on the farm after college - he had a graduate degree in economics and decided to return to the family farm in the early 1970s. He told us it would not be economically feasible as a career after his generation. We still own the land but it is now all rented out for pickles (technically cucumber) growing. 

The government incentives are set up for the Monsantos of the world, not small farms. 

Michigan Packer2 Your father is a wise man!  I didn'y grow up on a farm but a lot of my friends did- and you have to admire the work ethic farming/dairy farms instill but you still have to make a living.  Most of my friends unloaded the farms as soon as they inherited!

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