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How did corporate farms encourage people to quit farming and move to the city?
Wiki User
∙ 12y ago
cash crops, technology, debt, competition from corporations and jobs in cities.
Davin Monahan
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∙ 10y agoActually, the truth of the matter is they did no such thing. You the consumer (and millions of others like yourself) are the blame for such things happening because you have chosen, through your purchases at the grocery store, for safer and cheaper food products (eggs, meat, and milk). As a result, it became apparent that such products can only come from so-called "factory" farms, or any large-scale farm with a large infrastructure that is built to meet such demands. Prices for inputs increased as products sold for you, the consumer, decreased just as you had demanded through your choices. This caused the smaller farmer to choose between adopting the practices that are required to meet such demands you have set for those producers, or to get out. The land that came up for sale from the smaller producers that could not compete (NOT because the corporate farms literally forced them out!) was taken over by these larger farms.
The corporate farm is completely powerless compared to the resounding demand of a large group of consumers who decide what should go on the shelves of the grocery store through their purchases. Producers can only adapt and change their ways of doing things in order to keep in business and keep up with consumers' demands. If they do not do this, then they are on the road to failure. This is why you are seeing a decrease in the number of small farmers and an increase in the land accumulated by the larger ones.
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoBecause just like cash crops corporate farms were exhausting and city jobs were ten times better than farming.
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As farming became more productive more people were able to?
As farming came more productive, more people were able to leave the farms and to the city.
Soviet farms were either collective farms or?
either state farms, consumer farms, corporate owned farms, or family owned farms
Why were New England farms fairly small?
Subsitience farming
What was a long - term result of cash crop farming in America?
Slaves were brought in to work on farms.
Which best describes why the sizes of farms in new England were different from farms in the southern colonies?
Farming was different because in the south, the weather is mild in the winter and very hot in the summer. This is good for farming. In the North, the soil is rocky and the weather is very cold in the winter. Thats how its different.
Agricultural farming practices is typical of large corporate farms?
Monoculture
What effect did growth of businesses in the 1950 have on farming?
Answer this question… Farming became big business, and family farms found it difficult to compete with growing corporate farms.
When did corporate farming start?
Corporate farming started from small farmers growing ever larger. It's likely that such farms became labeled as such by the time the 1950s rolled around.
What is the difference between local and corporate farming?
No difference. Corporate farming is merely a business label applied to name a farm or ranch in order for a family (or a group of people) to take advantage of the accounting and legal benefits that comes with such a label. Corporate farms can be very local, it just depends on where you are located in proximity to such farms. Any farm of any size or business-type can be deemed "local" if you live within 50 miles of it.
Compared with family farming corporate farming is?
Still a family farm, despite the size. Here's a fascinating statistic that most don't realize: According to the EPA, 87% of all farms are individually or family-owned and operated. Corporate farms make up 4% of those farms, and only 1% of such corporate farms are solely owned and operated by other-cooperative, estates, trusts, etc. Another source (from the book Compassion by the Pound) states that the number of farms that are corporations themselves are family-owned and operated. Many, if not all such farms started small as the quaint, romantic-type farm many think of today into such large corporations.
What is the difference between corporate farming and family farming?
There is no difference, actually. Many, if not most corporate farms are owned by families, and are still considered a family farm. The term "family farm" should never always equate to a "small farm," nor should the term "corporate farm" should ever equate to a large-scale operation owned by a multi-national company or corporation. Many family farms are very large (often being the largest farming enterprises in the country), and many corporate farms have been formed by families who wished to take advantage of the legal and accounting benefits that comes with operating such a business enterprise.
How has technology farming?
Technology has affected farming by making it possible for fewer people to grow more crops per acre, at lower cost than would otherwise be the case. Technology has also contributed to the decline of the family farm and the rise of large corporate farms that are more like farming factories.
How has technology affected farming?
Technology has affected farming by making it possible for fewer people to grow more crops per acre, at lower cost than would otherwise be the case. Technology has also contributed to the decline of the family farm and the rise of large corporate farms that are more like farming factories.
Is food in Cuba grown in small family farms or large corporate farms?
well they are grown in large corporate farms and for their own family in small family farms
How are mixed crop farming and corporate farming different?
Mixed-crop farming is just a type of farming practice to enhance soil quality. Corporate farming is a business label attached to a farming operation as a whole, no matter if it's to the name of a farming operation owned by a family, (which makes up 98% of all such enterprises), or by a group of shareholders. It should come to no surprise that such farming operations practice mixed-crop farming just as often as those farms not labelled as corporations.
As farming became more productive more people were able to?
As farming came more productive, more people were able to leave the farms and to the city.
Family farms sold after 1980 were?
Combined into corporate farms.
