This tirade examines the changes I'm projecting needing to occur for the main purpose of feeding our country as well as making a few bucks exporting.
Agricultural change, for our purposes here, started around 1850. Change is still going full force today. I'm thinking about what a renormalization would be if change slowed down to a decent crawl.
I am starting to look at farming communities just as I look at Manufacturing Villages. Small manufacturing between harvest and planting could bring extra income to farm communities.
- Farmers should own the land they work or lease directly to the local, living on the land farmer. It's a matter of stewardship.
- Farmers should have a financial reserve of at least 2 years and cannot take on debt secured by the land. NO DEBT!
- To buy into Agribusiness, whether for distribution, research, or anything, requires at least 10 years hands-on farming of at least 500 acres.
- Farmers (through some kind of organization) will plan and supply the correct crop mixture, quality, and quantity to properly feed America.
- Cost plus pricing determined by not-greedy farmers
- Multi-generations structure especially for inheritance, including non-family people inheriting the farm. You could marry or be adopted, even as a adult, into a family.
- Computers are allowing all this to happen. Farmers are getting pretty good at analyzing data, drone flying, communicating, and more.
- Take the Agriculture Department out of the Federal government and let the farmers mange and pay - as part of the total national food cost - for operation.