My family also runs a corn/soy/cattle farm in KS. 3 tractors, a combine, 2 semi trucks and more than 1000 of acres of land to produce a commodity, the price of which you don't control and you're always paying down debt because it's so capital intensive.
1/ your stance is, I think: * FDA and USDA make agriculture into a commodity, and that means that a small family farm that sells to its neighbors is uneconomical * while there are economies of scale, there are diseconomies, like large tractors and feedlots
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2/ my stance is: * agriculture has ALWAYS been an economy, going back as far as Rome, and certainly in the US from the 1830s through the 1840s, and this is reflected in politics (blockades of southern cotton exports in Civ War, "cross of gold" politics in 1880s"
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3/ * the FDA and USDA aren't great, but don't significantly make the problem worse. I can sell my neighbor a half pig, or I can send my entire pig to the local butcher and have it processed for less than I could butcher it myself,
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