America’s Farms are Getting Wiped Out – by Peter St Onge
If you dream of escaping the cubicle and starting a farm, new data says America’s farmers are getting wiped out.
Leaving hollowed-out communities that rival the rust-belt.
A few days ago the USDA reported that the number of farms in America plunged by 140,000 in the last 5 years — that’s roughly 2,500 farms going bust every month.
Some is churn, some is technology, but a lot is green “sustainability” regulation which is code for regulations too expensive for any but big agribusiness to comply with, but is based on impeccable Science. (last clause /s).
