• Getawombatupya@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    There’s a reason the kids aren’t taking over the farm. Not to mention that a 50 acre returned soldier lot can’t provide for a family of six anymore.

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      1 year ago

      Well it isn’t subsistence farming by any stretch of the imagination it’s full on industrial farming.

      Most farms these days, at least crop farms, grow only two or three different crops. Mostly dictated by what will fetch the best price and what is currently being subsidised by the government. Often times you will find that farms are not growing any food stuffs at all.

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        1 year ago

        I grew up next to a farm. They stopped growing produce because the government regulations got to be crazy. They just grow soy beans and hay now.

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          1 year ago

          Can they not poison the water supply anymore or were there too many strings attached to get their subsidies?