Sunday, February 08, 2009

In Plain Sight | Exodus

"A farmer I was born and a farmer I will die"...Chris Knight

In the empty farm houses and abandoned barns around the state, it is easy to see the efficiency of modern agriculture. In the past 5 years, Minnesota has lost more than 2,000 mid-sized farms. As production methods change, the quintessential family-farms are being replaced by operations either macro in scale or micro in market. Get big, get small, or get out.

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