The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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