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I'm not sure what you can grow which might yield you $1400 an acre. When 20 acres costs 3 million dollars, some land has to put out a lot more than that. http

I'm not sure what you can grow which might yield you $1400 an acre. When 20 acres costs 3 million dollars, some land has to put out a lot more than that. http://www.bergmanvineyards.com/pf_dm.html http://www.bergmanvineyards.com/pf_dm.html Also note: http://countrystudies.us/russia/60.htm http://countrystudies.us/russia/60.htm Private plots also played a role in the Soviet agricultural system. The government allotted small plots to individual farming households to produce food for their own use and for sale as an income supplement. Throughout the Soviet period, the productivity rates of private plots far exceeded their size. With only 3 percent of total sown area in the 1980s, they produced over a quarter of agricultural output.

hugh 19y ago
Yes, I'm sure wine grapes would have to be among the >$1400/acre net crops. As for the Soviet example, don't you think that's more likely to be telling us something about private vs collectivized farms, rather than something about large vs small farms? I'm sure there must be data out there somewhere on the efficiency of large vs small farms. Hell, I'm sure there are people who spend their lives studying that kind of thing. Presumably there's some kind of complex productivity vs size curve which varies depending on what crop you're raising (as well as a bunch of other variables) and I'm sure if I went to hang out in the agricultural economics department for a while I could find out far more than I ever wanted to know about it.