In 1950 ten million people worked the land in the US. That figure is now at about one million. It wasn't just agricultural policy of "get big or get out" and th

In 1950 ten million people worked the land in the US. That figure is now at about one million. It wasn't just agricultural policy of "get big or get out" and the Green Revolution that drove this change. The farmers were a powerful political force. It was chosen to take away that power.