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“Continuation of the trend
toward larger and fewer
farms can be expected as
successful fanners expand
their onerations. Increased
control of agriculture by the
food marketing and farm
supply industries and,
perhaps to a lesser extent, by
other nonfarm inverters can
also be expected,” Guither
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Leonard Kyle, a Michigan
State University economist,
agreed with Guither that
farm operations will be
bigger. Kyle, in fact,' ap
peared to be an outspoken
supporter of a corporate
farming system for the U.S.
“Many farmers still don’t
take the possibility of a
corporate agriculture
seriously because they don’t
believe it can happen,” Kyle
said. “Twenty years ago,
almost no one believed it
could happen. But today, the
corporations themselves,
and growing numbers of
integrated or displaced
farmers know that cor
porations can succeed in
various parts of both field
crop and livestock
production.”
Some corporations now
farm huge acreages of
specialty crops, manage
great ranch spreads, and
feed hundreds of thousands
of cattle, Kyle said. Almost
all broilers and many
turkeys and eggs are
produced by farmer-growers
who are under contract to
vertically integrated firms.
Efficient use of capital,
technical information and
management by cor
porations all tend to favor a
system where farming could
eventually be controlled by
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fewer than 500 corporations
in the U.S. “Those farmers
miss the point who laugh at
certain operating errors
made by corporate far
mers,” Kyle said. “For
example, while the errors
made by Penn Central ap
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dous, that huge' railroad
system still exists. As
another example, IT&T grew
so fast and so large, not
because of any exceptional
operating" efficiency, but
rather, because it had a
delibrate and successful
strategy of growth via
acquisition and merger.”
The capacity of the giant
corporation to grow and
grow, despite the lack of any
real competitive edge over
individual farmers in a
traditional accounting sense,
is the crucial difference
between the corporate and
the individual competitor,
Kyle told the group.
Wallace Barr, of Ohio
State University, discussed
two different types of
agricultural system
dispersed open market and
the government controlled.
The basic features of a
dispersed system, Barr said,
would be modest size,
freedom of the operator to
make decisions and the
existence of an open market.
“Central to the system is the
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Barr said.
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and it is a system which
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farmer-citizens very well.
However, in our society,
where the number of far
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steadily, some steps would
have to be taken to assure
the success of a dispersed
system. Two of the strongest
steps proposed by Barr
would be to prohibit
agribusiness corporations
from engaging in
agricultural production, and
putting strict limits on
amount and terms of land
ownership by nonfanners.
Barr would not exclude
incorporated family farms
from the system, but would
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“In a dispersed system,
larger numbers of individual
fanners must be able to
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While a government
controlled agriculture would
seem distasteful to most
farmers, Barr commented,
there is already a degree of
government control. The
recent experiment with price
-controls on beef was one
example he noted.
Donald D. Knutson, head
of the USDA’s Farmer’s
Cooperative Service,
discussed the possibility of
developing a cooperative
system of agriculture in the
country. He said it would
involve fewer and larger
units than in the present
system of voluntary fanner
cooperatives. To maintain
control, all farmers would
belong to tightly organized
cooperatives that would
handle most procurement of
supplies and all marketing of
agricultural products. Land
ownership would generally
remain with the individual
cooperative members.
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producers' production and
marketing decisions. But
farmers would control the
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farmers and ranchers in this
system would face more
restrictions than in the open
market, but less restrictions
than in the corporate
system.
Harold Guither then ad
dressed the group on the
subject of a combination
system. Here, Guither said,
independent farm producers
would have freedom to make
management decisions, but
cooperatives and cor
porations would be assured
of continuied operation
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