Agribusiness Takes all: 90 years of Canadian net farm income

[Sheepwheat]

I think you guys might have the cause and effect backwards. First of all, no one is forcing anyone to buy expensive inputs, as Hobbyfarmer proves.
Secondly, it is the presence of these inputs which has allowed farms to grow to massive sizes, big farms don't need as much profit per acre as small farms, profit is what drove farms to get bigger, if profits are and have been so poor, why would we want to take on additional land?

Do you expect Walmart to have the same net profit as the thousands of Mom and Pop stores they have displaced?

Not going to argue that we are better off this way, but it is not as dire as the chart makes it look, see my comment above from months ago, divide that profit by the declining number of farmers, and we are doing very well now compared to almost any time in history. The chart should show per capita(farmer), not total, total is quite useless.

Greed. None of my neighbors actually needs more land. But I tell you, they all want more land. It is all they are after in this world, more land. It makes no sense to me, but it is what they desire. I think they like the iron? Think they need the iron? You should see my emergence from my ancient piece of junk seeder vs a paralink. Very comparable. But farmers need more and better, then whine and complain when the trains don’t show...

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Greed. None of my neighbors actually needs more land. But I tell you, they all want more land. It is all they are after in this world, more land. It makes no sense to me, but it is what they desire. I think they like the iron? Think they need the iron? You should see my emergence from my ancient piece of junk seeder vs a paralink. Very comparable. But farmers need more and better, then whine and complain when the trains don’t show...

That is my point, if the situation were so dire as that graph purports to show, The greedy ones would be getting out as fast as they could and getting jobs in town. Instead the greedy ones are expanding as fast as they can do to the Very good profits we are seeing per farm.

[farmaholic]

We do it cause were good people and for the love of the land !

Not for agri business !

".....for the love of the land"

Sounds like a toxic two-way abusive relationship.

More like a dysfunctional bipolar situation...