Posted by Check Break on June 16, 2012 at 17:24:19 from (96.249.201.64):
In Reply to: Bigger Bigger Bigger Farms posted by TraditionalMidwestFarmer on June 15, 2012 at 19:14:15:
But what can we do as farmers and enthusiasts to help reverse the bigger bigger trend?[/quote]
We need to pay attention to new legislation & regulations designed to decrease competition and shift the advantage to the corporate farmer.
There's several in play now. USDA is about to require animal ID chips and/or tags. If this becomes law, all poultry, cattle, hogs, horses, sheep, goats are going to have to be tagged or micro chipped. If you're farming using a confinement feeding operation, you'll only be required to ID the confinement area but if you're a little guy and you pasture your chickens or cattle, you will have to pay to ID every individual bird or animal. Then, you get to keep records and more records. How much time does a little guy have to fill out paperwork every day.
This is being sold the same way that food regs have been sold before. Food Safety. More like safety for big farms and more work for the little guy. The big farms pass the cost on to the consumer. The little guy goes broke. So, if you really want to know what the little guy can do to try to reverse the trend to bigger and bigger farms, s/he can voice their opposition to regulations like these which will damage and destroy the small farmer and remember to vote their senator and representative out of office when they vote against the small farmer.
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