Word: farms
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Webster is a Christian Scientist who neither drinks nor smokes and stays in shape by playing tennis regularly. He and Wife Drusilla weekend at the family's 265-acre farm in Callaway County, Mo., 90 miles west of St. Louis, where Webster rides horses and breeds Black Angus cattle. The parents of a college-age son and two daughters, the Websters have few qualms about moving East-even though, as Mrs. Webster says with a laugh, "we'll be one of the few in Washington not from Georgia...
Responding to this criticism, agribusiness representatives have argued that small farms are no longer economically viable. But Paul Taylor disagrees. "It's a bunch of horsefeathers to say you can't make a living on 160 acres." And a 1973 Department of Agriculture study also refutes agribusiness arguments, stating that most economies of scale can be achieved on a well-managed family farm. In California, the size of an optimally efficient farm ranged from 40 to 400 acres, in Kansas, from 180 to 570 acres, and in Montana, from 300 to 540 acres, depending on the type of crop grown...
More than a year ago, 30 Chicano farm worker families formed a strawberry co-op, borrowed $175,000 from the Wells Fargo bank and $100,000 from the federal government...
...GOVERNMENT needs to take a renewed interest in preserving the small, family farmer, who is suffering not because of his inability to produce as efficiently as a farm of 8000 acres, but because of his inability to absorb the losses resulting from a poor harvest. An insurance company investing in agriculture as a sideline can readily cover its short-term losses with profits from other areas of its business. The agricultural strike now in progress is a cry of frustration from small farmers being pushed out of business by corporate farms with greater financial resources. According to the U.S. Agricultural...
...discuss the small family farm only in terms of productivity and efficiency is to ignore the most compelling reasons for its preservation. The nature of farm organization largely determines the quality of life of America's agricultural workers. Enforcement of the acreage restriction could lead to the creation of thousands of new farms and help destroy the two-class system of agriculture prevalent in many parts of the west. On farms of 14,000 acres hundreds of people who could own their own land serve instead as employees subject to the whim of a landowner who has the power...