Is there going to be any more farmers in America still in business after the next 50years?

Question

...apart from factory farms?

Answer 1

Yes

Answer 2

Hard to say.  With developers aquiring more and more "farm" land to build houses, shoping malls and/or another golf course.  Cities taking more and more water so people can water their lawns, wash their cars,  and  well as water the golf coureses instead of farmers watering their crops.  And with the prices of fuel, equipment, labor to repair that equipment , fertiziler, .... keeps going up but the price of the ag markets staying the same(for the past 30 years) it going to be hard for the average farmer to be around for the next 50 years.

Anyways, that's how I see thing as being a farmer/rancher.

Answer 3

I hope so! its a hard job,and the land is appreciating so quickly the farmers and their familys are selling off!! I for one love farming and donot ever want to be in a sub-division I like having my own little place in heaven on earth!!

Answer 4

I CERTAINLY HOPE SO. THERE ARE FEWER FARMERS EACH YEAR . BUT THERE MAY ALWAYS BE A FEW IN THE UPLANDS LIKE APPALACHIA OR NORTH CALIFORNIA OR SOUTH ALABAMA.

Answer 5

Of course there will be family farms. As long as they still make money (and many, many of them do) , farms will be owned and operated by families. There may be an ever increasing size to the family farm, and more and more non-family labor, but there will still be family farms.

Answer 6

i do not know if there will be farmers but there will be food production. We cannot eat money or petroleum. Maybe in the next 50 years, "farmers" will be the new billionaires.

Answer 7

I hope so. It seems the official USDA policy is to get rid of all but maybe 100K and those farmers will manage millions of acres likely using robotic devices such as tractors that are remotely controlled/gps guided.

As it stands the state and federal Ag depts. are making it harder and harder to be a small farmer. There are more and more regulations designed to make big operations safer but would be impossible for most small operations to implement (generally because of cost as it is one thing for a farm that has $10 million dollars in gross sales to afford a $100K change and quite another for a farm with $50K in gross sales to do the same). There are programs such as NAIS that are tilted towards the big factory farm/feedlot producers. And of course the USDA Farm subsidies do not go to small diversified family farms but rather to big corporate operations that grow one to 4 commodity crops.

Farmers are a stubborn lot and as long as there is civilization there will be diversified farmers

Answer 8

yes!!! the trend is going for smaller organic sustainable farming.....also, tree fruit farming.....open markets will be the trend for distribution..there is a trend in CA for restaurants and specialty food stores to contract a small producer to provide products ...and above the going market....no more cardboard tasting apples

Answer 9

In my opinion I think not . I say this because as  years go by more invnions are being made limiting the amout of work  for us humans to do . There for  50 years later there could be an invention that  does everything for us .

i hope my answer helps you out !!!!

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