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THE FAMILY FARM
The charge that the family farm is dying and is destined to be almost entirely replaced by gigantic corporate farms has no basis in fact. Every objective study shows that the family farm is th& solid foundation on which our agricultural economy rests—and that there is every indication that this will continue to be true..
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However, the character of the family farm has changed.
The change was made inevitable by agriculture’s technological revolution. The tractor, symbolically speaking,, utterly transformed farming. It put it on a business basis. A substancial investment is now necessary, as is a high degree of operating efficiency. Numberless family farms have adapted themselves to the new conditions—to their enormous benefit. These farms have grown larger, too-primarily because modern equipment gives each man a far greater productive power than he had before.
•In modern agriculture, there is less and less room for marginal farmers, with poor land, or the inability or lack of desire to deal with the conditions of today as against those of the past. Many of these farmers have left agriculture to enter industry-and they are better for it The good farmer, on the other hand, has stayed with his land, and enlarged, imprved and conserved it. Like everyone else, he’s had his ups and downs. But over the years he’s done very well indeed.
Yes, the good family farm is here to stay. And efficient farm equipment is among its principal mainstays.
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