I don't see how the logistics of farming elephants would work at all. You can't just successfully farm any animal. Elephants have long reproductive cycles and

I don't see how the logistics of farming elephants would work at all. You can't just successfully farm any animal. Elephants have long reproductive cycles and they don't breed well in captivity. From what I understand males are difficult to keep in captivity as well. I don't know how old an elephant has to be to get a usable amount of Ivory from it but it's probably on the order of decades. Not to mention that many people think keeping elephants in captivity is cruel. Many people who don't have a problem keeping domestic animals think keeping wild animals in captivity is cruel Among a host of other reasons why farming elephants wouldn't work. Elephants are wild animals. You can't just stick a few in a cage and throw some peanuts at them.