Logger on a Rock Wall (Constructive Critism Please)

timor · Sep 10, 2012

Farmclicker said:
PS: Moderators, I recognize that this is a photography site and not a farming forum, but it seems as if people are interested in how farms today operate. I assure you this is an exchange to explain some of farming today and won't be a habitual thing. I do thank you for your understanding, and latitude in this slight deviation from photography as the main topic of conversation. It is a pleasure to explain to others just how a half a percent of the US population can feed the other 99-1/2%. In other words, I am glad people are interested in where their food comes from.

Salute to moderators indeed. From my side I just want to close my involvement in this topic. I have a lot of questions as I am a trained in farm animal production, but in Europe. After that I spent only 3 years in the field before I decided, that Canada will be my home. Never the less: your productivity is at the top of the world, what you've got there ? Holstein-Friesian ? I never had any thoughts about farming since I landed in Toronto long time ago, but by reading just your post I can tell right now, what is the killer and that is the distribution of production. In direct therms cost of transportation. Dairy farming in pure form disappeared in Europe some 40 years ago (same reasons as here) and is seen today only as very important supporting element. Milk production should be as close to final consumer as possible, in Europe it's usually 40 miles or less. Think, how far your milk is going ? Can America reverse it's tendency for overgrowing commercial operations ? I said previously, that it scares me, what you said, as I see here a systematic tendency of destruction of independent farming in order to replace it with gigantic corporations. Who controls the food, controls the world.