USDA Chief: Rural America Becoming Less Relevant

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2. More and more "farms" are factory/corporate farms and they have their own brand of subsidy

There has been a great shrinkage in true family farming, as retiring farmers sold out to developers.

Farming (like we saw in the movies) has been eroding for a long time. Farmers sent their kids to college or into business, so the old model of inherited farms continuing through the centuries is probably no longer the norm.

I am from Kansas, and all over that state there were farms that had houses built on them for the sons & daughters as they married, and all continued to run the farm...until they started going to college and decided they did not WANT to run the farm when Dad/Grandpa passed away....and at some point there are just too many heirs to squabble about the land.

Once the land becomes corporate, everything changes.