Comment by jvanderbot

3 months ago

What a stupid process. It bothers me that farmers rarely own the land too. We can't shake our tendency to let wealth turn us into tiny little kings that live off the rent. (not so tiny in the case of farms, but you get it).

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Isamu  3 months ago

>It bothers me that farmers rarely own the land too

You will be glad to learn that most farmland is farmer owned:

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/land-use-land-v...

  • NoGravitas  3 months ago

    This depends a fair bit on how you define "farmer", of course.

    • Isamu  3 months ago

      If you raise crops or farm animals, you are a farmer.

      The USDA is not trying to pull a fast one with the definition of a farmer.

      We could have a discussion about farmers that have other jobs and so are part time farming and part time something else. That tends to correlate with less intensive farming like corn and soybeans.

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