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<blockquote data-quote="Ffermer Bach" data-source="post: 7933244" data-attributes="member: 51054"><p>In Jared Diamond's book Collapse, he talks about why societies fail, and mentions Italy and North Africa (which were both the bread baskets for the Roman Empire). He says they destroyed the soil in both areas by the way they farmed. He argues part of the reason for that, was the land was owned by large wealthy landowners, who employed managers to farm it. This then meant, the farmers worked on a "short term" results driven timescale. Poor results in one year, out of a job etc. This meant the land was not farmed with a long term view to improvement of soil resources. That idea sounds pretty similar to the way you are forced to farm - short term lets/FBTs/share farming agreements does not encourage the attitude of the smaller Yeoman farmer to improve the land for their children. You may say I am being overly romantic but I am only joining the dots from Diamond's book to the present system we seem to be moving towards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ffermer Bach, post: 7933244, member: 51054"] In Jared Diamond's book Collapse, he talks about why societies fail, and mentions Italy and North Africa (which were both the bread baskets for the Roman Empire). He says they destroyed the soil in both areas by the way they farmed. He argues part of the reason for that, was the land was owned by large wealthy landowners, who employed managers to farm it. This then meant, the farmers worked on a "short term" results driven timescale. Poor results in one year, out of a job etc. This meant the land was not farmed with a long term view to improvement of soil resources. That idea sounds pretty similar to the way you are forced to farm - short term lets/FBTs/share farming agreements does not encourage the attitude of the smaller Yeoman farmer to improve the land for their children. You may say I am being overly romantic but I am only joining the dots from Diamond's book to the present system we seem to be moving towards. [/QUOTE]
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