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<blockquote data-quote="Osca" data-source="post: 2653190" data-attributes="member: 11501"><p>The problem is with big units mind to my is that they have to depend too much on an effective off-farm infrastructure; they have to have a buyer capable of taking and moving huge amounts of one product and these people are also ruthless in their bottom-line efficiency and merciless in forgetting your needs if there is a glut of this or the supermarket prefers that. I think a big specialist grower is probably a lot more vulnerable to change and outside influences than a small mixed farm. I also wonder whether, despite economies of scale, the success of big farms in this country is largely an artificial thing, bolstered by the illogical way payments are made. We don't have an ideal landscape for prairies, either; too trappy. (If that were not the case I would never have got my little bit of land which is too steep to suit modern mechanised farming.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Osca, post: 2653190, member: 11501"] The problem is with big units mind to my is that they have to depend too much on an effective off-farm infrastructure; they have to have a buyer capable of taking and moving huge amounts of one product and these people are also ruthless in their bottom-line efficiency and merciless in forgetting your needs if there is a glut of this or the supermarket prefers that. I think a big specialist grower is probably a lot more vulnerable to change and outside influences than a small mixed farm. I also wonder whether, despite economies of scale, the success of big farms in this country is largely an artificial thing, bolstered by the illogical way payments are made. We don't have an ideal landscape for prairies, either; too trappy. (If that were not the case I would never have got my little bit of land which is too steep to suit modern mechanised farming.) [/QUOTE]
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