I’m not so sure that’s true. There is a shit load of land used to grow corn to make ethanol that’s farmed by independent farmers. In the US most farmland is used for soy beans and corn for livestock feed or fuel. It wouldn’t be a simple or cheap undertaking, but that last could be utilized more efficiently to directly or indirectly fees people.
I would also bet there are enough people that would love to be farmers that can’t because land isn’t available or cheap that would step up if large farm operations were broken up. That’s pure speculation, but even if one mega farm were split 4 ways, that would still be an improvement to the current situation.
Vast majority of this funding will get vacuumed up by corporate farms and continue to leave most small family/independents out to dry
Unless everyone wants to be a farmer, large scale corporate farms are how we have to feed billions.
I’m not so sure that’s true. There is a shit load of land used to grow corn to make ethanol that’s farmed by independent farmers. In the US most farmland is used for soy beans and corn for livestock feed or fuel. It wouldn’t be a simple or cheap undertaking, but that last could be utilized more efficiently to directly or indirectly fees people.
I would also bet there are enough people that would love to be farmers that can’t because land isn’t available or cheap that would step up if large farm operations were broken up. That’s pure speculation, but even if one mega farm were split 4 ways, that would still be an improvement to the current situation.
So then people were just starving to death in the 50’s and 60’s?
I seriously doubt it
Well, then farming made up more than 15% of the work force, today that number is less than 2%. Because large production farms became common.
Sounds like a classic chicken and egg problem. Or circular reasoning.
We had half the population in the US in 1960, and a bit more than a third of today’s number globally.
And we had none of the efficiency, gmo’s, and a fraction of the available laborers, and were using smaller amounts of land for farming.
The efficiency comes at scale, not diffuse small farms.
GMOs yes.
Modern farming is less labor-intensive, not sure on your point there.
Ag land use down 21.7% 1950-2002 Source. Downward trend continues through 2024 Source.