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To: Dayuhan who wrote (52781)	8/23/1999 9:50:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think you are wrong about the most productive farms. I think the cash grain farmers in the midwest and the cattle and pig feeders are the most productive farmers in the world. They are so efficient that their prices are so low they cannot survive. They get expert advice, have steadily improving seeds, and have cheap chemicals. The most important thing, in my opinion are that the owners provide much of the labor, and really take care of their farms. They have good credit and are willing to invest in necessary technology. The economics make farms grow to several thousand acres and require some hiring of labor. There are real seasonal problems, and that's one reason that corporate farms can't take over these most productive sectors. The problems of peasant farmers everywhere are primarily insufficient scale and credit to expand to efficient size. Of course, with commodity price trends down hundreds of millions of farmers will be driven off the land by competition (as has already happened in the US).