The future of farming

[Fransisco]

"the value of the efficiencies should be paid to the stakeholder that invest the time and money to create them"

So... if someone creates a combine that's 15% more efficient and you buy it, then you should pass all of those efficiency gains back to the manufacturer. No one buy it then. Or am I missing something here?

I also don't see the elimination of the crow subsidy as an example of efficiency.

[samhill]

a salesman knows if you buy paper clips in a box of
100's, it's more efficient than if you buy 1,2, or 3 at
a time and he has to count them out. Theoretically
if you buy enough, they will be free.
Therefore, there should only be one farmer in
Canada.
Maximum efficiency.
Corporations will ruin the economy, and it will
simply be the feudal system that people came here
to escape.
The people I know running large operations have
quite a few employees, who don't make much
income, so it is very efficient. The race continues.

[bucket]

You pay more for a more efficient combine. But the company that makes them gains, by making more of them or making their process to make them more efficient.(ie less labor or parts to make the combine).

The efficiencies gained by the elimination of the crow was the elimination of elevators that the railways no longer had to service. (ie. less labour or points to service)

[burnt]

Sure, it's a great idea!!

Central planning and control (which is essentially what the statement is advocating) worked out really well for the Soviet Union, too, didn't it!

So go right at it and see who's left at the top of the heap!

Enjoy!

[Fransisco]

My point is that efficiencies are never kept completely to oneself. The combine manufacturer gets some of the benefit and you get some of the benefit.

Point taken on the crow.

[cottonpicken]

How does that old saying go..."i'd rather be lucky than
efficient"

[LWeber]

No CP

it is i'd rather efficiently get lucky

[hlg]

It is amazing to watch history repeat itself. Most great powers ,of all time,collapsed because of too much power in the hands of too few. This time it may be world wide.

[hlg]

We now "efficiently" grow more grain than ever to supply a flooded market and then complain about prices while paying our skyrocketing inputs. We should soon be efficiently broke.

[burnt]

Exactly. But the mad rush to bigger and better continues without any thought about its ultimate outcome.