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Co-operation of farmers selling their produce is one good way to keeping food prices down and organic farming trend I hope continues to reduce the processed food of huge corporations that only care about making a profit for investors . Less fertile land and loss of land to manufacturers is another problem. Quality control of water is issue. Woes of farming.

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Well, you are going to need a government which is not beholden to the property developers, in fact, does not consist of people who own property portfolios.

This rules out the Democrats and the Republicans.

I don’t know the first thing about the American Green Party, but if you want to stop the corporate lockout of the food industry, then neither of the other two will help.

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I farmed some land in Arkansas back in the mid 70's. I struggled with prices and weather and six years later I was out. I did start from scratch and invested everything and lost everything. My father and brother were farming together and helped me when they could but while I was working 750 acres, they had 3000. They took over my leases and increased to 3750+. I went and helped them but was working part time for the post office. Got a full-time position and left the farm.

A lot of people don't realize that most farms don't raise what you see in a farmers' market. Over the years my father, brother and I (for a time) raised cotton, wheat, soybeans, milo, and rice. Mass producing was the only way to make a profit. Another thing not realized is the high cost of equipment.

New combines, that can harvest everything, but cotton are around 1 million dollars. Cotton pickers are about the same price. Nothing like the equipment I was using in my younger years. A lot of farms now are owned by big corporations with thousands of acres.

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