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Re: a bad taste in my mouth... young farmers


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Posted by wisbaker on September 23, 2012 at 12:03:57 from (184.157.222.95):

In Reply to: a bad taste in my mouth... young posted by John_PA on September 23, 2012 at 03:02:26:

Two sides to the coin, and this is from someone who did
a term paper on "small scale sustainable" farming while
earning his BS in Animal Science. I still believe in
what I learned in school-that world hunger is an
economic problem, that we have the capability to feed
the world, it's just they don't have the money to pay
for it. ANYTHING THAT INCREASES THE COST OF FOOD IS
MAKING WORLD HUNGER WORSE. Yes small scale farming CAN
be done in ways that are more environmentally friendly,
but the down side is cost. If the person farming 40
acres gets 10% more from each acre you're still counting
on that 40 to provide a living for that person/family,
compare that to a BTO who might generate his livelihood
from 2,000 acres, we might get slightly less food per
acre but the person farming BTO or Commercial is
contributing MORE food at a LOWER cost. If we remodel
our agriculture into small scale labor intensive
practices that's fine but the cost is farmers with a
lessor life style working 60 hours a week for probably
less than they could make elsewhere and we'll pay MORE
for our food. So many of the small scale, organic or eat
local initiatives are more a marketing plan than an
agricultural practice out universities need to teach the
economics alongside the science. Or to put it another
way farming is a business we need to teach the young
people that want to farm business as well as
agricultural science, when I was in school they closed
all business classes to non-majors because they were
over enrolled, one of the nation's first Land Grant
Universities can't get their arms around the fact that
agriculture is a business and needs to prepare their
students to deal with that reality.


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