Corporate farms are separate entities from the actual owner so if the farm goes under the owners don't have to worry about losing their homes. Another thing big corporation don't have to deal with is working the land themselves all they have to do is hire employees to work for them. On the other hand small farms have to deal with plating the crops themselves and if you have a lot of land you might have to hire others to come help you during planting and harvesting. Basically corporate farms get a lot of advantages with few if any of the risks that owning a farm can bring. So while running small time farmers out is not a good thing it seems s that it will happen in the near future. .
To emphasize me point I bring up Chuck Hassebrocks news article on Initiative 300, in which he says that the initiative 300 helps Nebraska family farmers. While this may be true it also shows how much in danger the small family farms could be and probably are in. Simply put, without initiative 300, family farms would have already gone the way of the dinosaur and become extinct if not for a few select crops that corporate farms are afraid to grow. What initiative 300 basically does is keep small family farms and large corporate farms on an equal playing field. This means that the people who would invest in a large industrial farm get none of the perks a larger corporation could and would normally have. So while this helps to keep family farms in the mix, it stands in the way of the large companies making money. That is why I think initiative 300 won't be around much longer because it is standing in the way of what some would call progress. Initiative 300 may hold out a little longer, but in the end money is the driving force in the world and small farms don't have enough to stay in the race. .
Barbra Kingsolver also brings up very interesting insights about the growing of tobacco in the United States.
