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user-inactivated · 2441 days ago · link · · parent · post: How China can win a trade war in one move
It is not just soybean (pdf warning) They're 17% of our total Agriculture Exports right now. ... and then move to gobble up all the small operations that were just barely making it anyways. There are a lot more smallish operations than you might expect at first glance: the hubhub around contract farming is an interesting rabbit hole to google. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/16/the-decline-of-the-small-american-family-farm-in-one-chart/?utm_term=.a93c290ad58b in the short term some big framing conglomerates would collect some government crop insurance subsidies
mean farm size[in 2011] is 234 acres