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kleinbl00  ·  3758 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don't let your Children grow up to be Farmers

Hadn't read your PDF before. Just did. A couple things jump out:

1) Farm profits (IE, living wages of farm owners) were cut by 66% and stayed depressed for 20 years

2) Agricultural conglomerates don't own most of your farms. This sentence:

    Financiers were quick to realise that there was little point in forcing farmers off their land

Is positively laughable in the United States.