right. 3 million "farmers" vs. 2 million "farmworkers", 50% of which are undocumented (up from 15% 2 decades ago) per usda.
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Replying to @crazyoldbutcher @InaneImperium
the *average* age of farmers is now pushing 60.
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Replying to @crazyoldbutcher @InaneImperium
(off of your topic, but found this interesting)
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Replying to @crazyoldbutcher
In a sense it is "on topic". Can you imagine what ppl would've thought in 1816 if we said average farmer age would be 60?
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Replying to @InaneImperium
tbf they'd likely have thought medicine must have advanced such that 60 yr olds were spry and youthful.
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Replying to @crazyoldbutcher
Right, exactly. The mechanics of it would have been unthinkable to them.
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Replying to @InaneImperium
plummeting fertility, farmers replace children with foreign serf labor, with no heirs must work into their dotage.
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Replying to @crazyoldbutcher
That makes it sound appropriately dystopian! But the big picture isn't so bad: farming so mechanized that each family only-
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Replying to @InaneImperium @crazyoldbutcher
-needs one member to run the business, a position that the patriarch guards into dotage, like a tenured professor.
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Replying to @InaneImperium @crazyoldbutcher
This closely-held family dynamic artificially inflates farm prices like a mother-f'er..
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I explored investing in some cropland vehicles during the commodity downturn.. but price had hardly budged..
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..driven by families competing to snatch up enough land for the next generation to make a living on.
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Replying to @AngloRemnant @crazyoldbutcher
Right. Some farmers cry poor but it's their lifestyle that is in trouble, not their living.
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