2. What are some reasons? With a lack of access to markets, the benefits from farm programs go to larger farms. Family farmers are unable to attract new investors. With a high cost of equipment (averaging an initial cost of about $200,000), investors are necessary. However, the average age for famers has risen to 58 years old, with only 6% of the farmers being under the age of 35. What investors look for in businesses is the probability that their investments will succeed or not. Failure is viewed as more common in older people, especially in a line of work that requires intense physical labor, such as farming. Though farmers do receive consumer dollars for the food they produce, their income is often offset by inflation. 1980, a farmer received $.37 for every consumer dollar spent on food, * a net income equivalent to that of the Great Depression. 2012, the farmer receives $.20 for every consumer dollar spent on food

3. Corporate Farming Modern Food Production CORPORATE FARMING CORPORATE FARMING encompasses the production of animal and plant foods as well as the transportation for marketing. The "farmers" are actually large corporations who are absentee farmers and have no stake in the surrounding environment. the most food, in the smallest space, in the fastest way, with the least cost possible, The idea behind corporate farming is to raise the most food, in the smallest space, in the fastest way, with the least cost possible, without much consideration for the animals, the community or the environment limits the diversity A problem with large -scale food production is that by reducing the actual number of companies that produce our foodit limits the diversity of the food being produced, if one of these agribusinesses should stop functioning, a great deal of the food chain could be threatened.

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5. Corporate Farming Modern Food Production Industrial farms cause smaller farms to go out of business by mass producing food. Efficiency is they key to production, despite the use of unnatural chemicals, genetic engineering, and inhumane methods of treating livestock. Increased amounts of food mean that food prices can drop and make it easier for consumers to feed themselves and their families. With a growing population, the government supports industrial farming. Industrial farming has become a big business.

6. Agribusiness Modern Food Production agribusiness crop production, seed supply agrochemicals distribution processing sales. agribusiness is a generic term applied to businesses involved in some or all of the following agricultural production systems: crop production, including farming and contract farming, seed supply, agrochemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing, and retail sales.ctiod supply agroch distributbusinessesctiontract d supply, agrochinerand distribut, marketing, a VERTICAL INTEGRATION

7. Corporate Farming Modern Food Production US governmenteliminate the small family farm. The US government is now engaged in a war to eliminate the small family farm. The family farm has been under pressure for a long time by larger and more powerful commercial interests as well as the their collusion with government. lobbying Congress to harm or impede the family farm operation They do this by way of lobbying Congress to enact regulations that are designed to to harm or impede the family farm operation.

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