tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post3126820996075085184..comments2024-03-28T05:47:44.752-05:00Comments on RIFLES AT DAWN: Trouble, Down On The FarmTim Morrisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00457723301178870851noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-61661672542876926512009-09-04T10:22:25.803-05:002009-09-04T10:22:25.803-05:00for years we have been asked to support farm subsi...for years we have been asked to support farm subsidies to protect the family farm. But a rational look at farm policy can only conclude that the more the government "helped," the worse the plight of the smaller farmers has become. Indeed, some 75% of all subsidies are recieved by about 20% of all farmers. No doubt the number of farms would have shrunk in any event, but the free market would reward the efficient, not necessarily the big.<br /><br />Ken Van DorenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-52527191068832158912009-09-03T10:44:49.355-05:002009-09-03T10:44:49.355-05:00The Art of Farming
Farming was possibly the larges...The Art of Farming<br />Farming was possibly the largest guild in the world. I was going to define it as 'civilized' world, but farming doesn't need government or civilizaton to perform. Until the last 40 years it has resisted corporate control and was a cottage industry, free of Adam Smith ideology. Farming is poorly taught in school. Long apprenticeships and generational secrets or mysteries, passed on by family's 'master craftsmen'kept farming free and independant. Now,the bourgeois capitalist has crushed this bastion of free and independant art.antpoppanoreply@blogger.com