Perdue Suggests Small Farms Can't Survive

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3. Alas, that's probably true.

I know very little about farming, although I spent part of my childhood (ages 7 to 14) in the dairy farming country of Upstate New York, just a bit north of Utica. Many of the people around us were farmers. Small family farms. Their cash crop was milk, and the going price of milk was enormously important. Most of them depended on the labor of the children in the family. Many of the dads drove a school bus for our local school to earn a bit of extra cash.

I moved away more than 50 years ago, and while I've been back a handful of times for brief visits, I've never connected with any of those farming families, and I haven't a clue if any of them are still raising dairy cows.