Controlling Corporate Farming

Management of corporate agriculture "61% of agricultural production in the United States comes from a company farm" (Abbey, 2002). "There are 163,000 companies nationwide, 63% of which have contracts with merger companies" (Abbey, 2002). "When the trend of current integration continues, all farms in Iowa will be 225,000 acres of farms and state farms will be only 140 farms" (Abbey, 2002), Fred Kirchenmann said. . A large company enters agriculture and takes over.

Consumers hope that family-run farms are successful businesses, not corporate farms. Does it take some time to understand that "commercial" and "company" are synonyms? If the farm is not allowed to take actions, how can they succeed? If you do not want to make your farm business, how would you like to send farmers' medical expenses, cell phone charges, or children to the university? This is a double constraint of farmers. Whether you are competing in world commodity markets or spending a week in six farmers' markets, while refraining from the fact that farms must be an incredibly efficient business, they are looking for small business looks You must cultivate AND and feel.

A small number of companies manage our food from farm to dining table. The unrestrained power strengthens the political influence on the rules governing our food system to them and allows them to operate the market - lower the price paid to family farmers and bankrupt them I will push it to you. Agricultural aid began with the agricultural crisis of the 1980s, the agricultural economy sharply shrunk, hundreds of thousands of family farmers were obliged to leave the land. The core strategy for agricultural support at this time - the improvement of consciousness, the support of farmers in crisis, and the advocacy of policies to develop fair and more accurate agricultural systems - still exist today I will