Small farms are producing less and facing money problems

At the price of fuel, seed, and fertilizer, plus the cost of machinery to replace, or fix, it is hard to keep ahead, without going into debt shipmate PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

Government regulations favor the large firms according to this article. Or another words corporate America strikes again. I live in a rural area have 180 acre farm directly across the road from me and I’ve had several conversations with that farmer about some of his overhead. I don’t see how he keeps it afloat. I have 20 acres of pasture and woods with a few horses. Equipment costs are painful…

Farming is a hard dangerous life. Everything is on you and you pray the government doesn't so something stupid like tariffs or other dumb laws setting prices on what your area does. Small/midsized farms are the backbone of our farms. They care about the land. Not something today's huge COLLECTIVE farms do. You know, the ones you can smell from 10 miles away. But let's not forget how Reagan and the GOP destroyed all of the small dairy farms in the midwest during the late 70s so he could get to be POTUS for making California's desert green.