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[Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 9/25/2007, you wrote:
>  This has
> caused them to take low prices and make up the
> difference by expanding.  A cycle that has caused
> increasingly tight profit margins.  At some point
> corporate farms will gain such a large percentage of
> the market they will be able to control the wholesale
> price of agricultural products

Whendel Berry does a good job of explaining some of this in one of his 
essays.  Farm prices fall causing tight margins forcing farmers to become 
industrialized, forcing more people into the cities to become a cheap labor 
pool.  I believe Gene Logsdon also speaks to this massive transfer of 
people from rural areas and some form of self sufficiency to almost total 
dependency in urban areas.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com