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<blockquote data-quote="Walterp" data-source="post: 4207394" data-attributes="member: 321"><p>If you don't know much (if anything) about the agricultural depressions of the fairly recent past then I respectfully suggest you read up and consider them before expressing a view.</p><p></p><p>The best place to start would, in my opinion, be a work of fiction: Zola's <em>'La Terre'</em> was written in 1887 and is a grim and sordid account of family farming in the 19th Century on the arable plains of the Paris Basin. </p><p></p><p>It's got everything from sheep illnesses to fertiliser pioneering, to the farmer's wife carrying on with the herdsman, old boys refusing to hand over the reins, what happens to them if they do, and the way that State agricultural subsidies resolved the eternal conflict between farmers who seek a return on capital and the rest of the population who seek cheap food.</p><p></p><p>It was set during the Long Depression, when N American binders ruined European corn farmers.</p><p></p><p>For the onset of the Great Depression (which began in farming) the best account is Adrian Bell's 'Corduroy' (Martin Bell's father) and his memorable description of farmers, moaning about poor prices, who failed to appreciate that they were the harbinger of bankruptcy for many large-scale tenant farmers in the following decade.</p><p></p><p>There's nothing wrong with your political preferences colouring your views, but I suggest it's fair to make it clear that you are describing what you<em> want</em> to happen, not what the available evidence suggests probably <em>will </em>happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Walterp, post: 4207394, member: 321"] If you don't know much (if anything) about the agricultural depressions of the fairly recent past then I respectfully suggest you read up and consider them before expressing a view. The best place to start would, in my opinion, be a work of fiction: Zola's [I]'La Terre'[/I] was written in 1887 and is a grim and sordid account of family farming in the 19th Century on the arable plains of the Paris Basin. It's got everything from sheep illnesses to fertiliser pioneering, to the farmer's wife carrying on with the herdsman, old boys refusing to hand over the reins, what happens to them if they do, and the way that State agricultural subsidies resolved the eternal conflict between farmers who seek a return on capital and the rest of the population who seek cheap food. It was set during the Long Depression, when N American binders ruined European corn farmers. For the onset of the Great Depression (which began in farming) the best account is Adrian Bell's 'Corduroy' (Martin Bell's father) and his memorable description of farmers, moaning about poor prices, who failed to appreciate that they were the harbinger of bankruptcy for many large-scale tenant farmers in the following decade. There's nothing wrong with your political preferences colouring your views, but I suggest it's fair to make it clear that you are describing what you[I] want[/I] to happen, not what the available evidence suggests probably [I]will [/I]happen. [/QUOTE]
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