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To: ecommerceman who wrote (127864)	2/18/2001 6:48:27 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<What we're seeing in farm country right now is very much akin to what DID happen in the Soviet Union, and that is to have the land worked by a class of people who have no economic interest in it (read: hired hands). And that is PRECISELY why I support breaking large land-holdings up when rich landholders die--it usually returns the land to family farmers, often beginning ones...>> No, what is happening is the farms are getting bigger. Those that have are buying the land from the small holders. New farmers can't pay the nut to start.

To: ecommerceman who wrote (127864)	2/18/2001 7:06:28 PM
From: CVJ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Since when did being a hired hand mean one doesn't have an economic interest in a farm, or for that matter any other enterprise, like a coal mine or a car factory or a bakery or..., well you get the idea. Would you favor increasing prices of food or the gov't subsidies that help to keep prices down? The reason there are fewer and fewer small family farms and more and more corporate farms is the little matter of efficiency. Would you rather buy your milk from a supermarket which gets it from gigantic dairies with 1000's of cows, or from a small farmer with 10 cows, or milk you own cow? Things change, maybe not for all the best reasons all the time, but change is the only constant. To maintain small family farms, what price in $ and population control would you consent to? Anything has consequences; like the Chinese say, be careful of what you wish for,you may get it. Chas