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Because with virtual farming you don't have to shovel poop. You can also harvest an entire field with one mouse click. Pretty obvious why few people want to act
by Apreche 4y ago
Because with virtual farming you don't have to shovel poop. You can also harvest an entire field with one mouse click. Pretty obvious why few people want to actually become farmers. Despite all the mechanization, it's still difficult, dangerous, and dirty.
- dylan604 4y agoRight, because when you fail in a game, you just insert another $.25 and continue. When the crops fail for a real farmer, there is no spawn point to start over. It might literally cost them the farm.
- bequanna 4y agoNot exactly. In the US, subsidized crop insurance lowers the risk of low yields and provides a nice safety net.
- dylan604 4y agoYes, this is why so many small family farms are being sold out to corpFarm left, right, center.
- bequanna 4y agoI guess I’m not familiar with this. I live in northern midwestern farm country (corn/soybean fields) and can see some consolidation, but still almost all family farms.
- bluGill 4y agoThere are no family farms for accounting reasons. The family still lives on the farm and looks like a family farm, but the legal situation is all corporate farm.
- floren 4y agoPretty much all of those farms in your area started out as 160 acres. If you see any bigger, that's consolidation.