One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.
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In general, we run the farm like a business instead of a welfare recipient, and we adhere to historically-validated patterns.
I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.
As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.
Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.
A farm bill in Washington State is a jobs bill.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together.
Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.
Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.
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