Today’s Farmer: Nine Hours Daily On A Computer
June 20th, 2012
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From GENE LOGSDONI promised not to use his name because I wanted him to speak freely which is not easy to do these days when society is in such conflict. He is a fortyish farmer, articulate, engaging, a delight to talk to. He and his brother grow upwards of 5000 acres of corn and soybeans, much of it rented. The first time I met him, several years go, I remembered him saying that a farmer needed to spend two hours a day on the computer, hedging and marketing his grain.
This is not a pretty vision of the future of American farming.Logsdon calls the consolidation of farmland into land trusts (worked by employees, not owner-farmers) “socialistic,” but I think that’s inaccurate.What he’s describing is really more like feudalism. Without the reciprocal obligations that medieval lords had to their serfs.
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