So, I'm new to this blogging, this is my first diary. It looks like it is a quick way to learn that not everyone agrees with your opinion no matter how good it might sound.
I have farmed in Wisconsin for 30 years, land that has been in my family since 1848. Farming has gotten pretty intensive, small farms with kids and dogs and sheep and chickens running around are mostly just a fond memory.
Now, I could say that losing that type of farming was OK because it was an inefficient way to farm and feed the world, I could, but I won't. People still have an emotional attachment to small scale farming and they like to think it still exists, but most people have no concept of farming at all, other than eating and driving through or flying over farmland. Walk into any grocery store (unless you are in the inner city or parts of rural America where you will find poverty but few grocery stores) and there is always plenty of food there, from every corner of the world, any time of the year. So when Universities and agribusiness corporations tell us big farms are more efficient, people believe it, I know I did, for about half of my life.
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