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Farming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Agriculture (a term which encompasses farming) is the art, science or practice of producing food, feed, fiber and many other desired goods by the systematic raising of plants and animals. Agri is from Latin ager ('a field'), and culture is from Latin cultura, meaning 'cultivation' in the strict sense of tillage of the soil. Thus a literal reading of the English word yields tillage of the soil of a field. In actual usage, Agriculture denotes a broad array of activities essential to food and material production, including all techniques for raising and processing livestock (see Animal husbandry) no less than those essential to crop planting and harvesting. ..." |
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| Farming Is a Business, by Clarence B. Carson, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Aug 1986 |
| Free-Market Farming, by W. M. Curtiss, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Feb 1956 |
Freedom to Farm Washington, by James Bovard, Freedom Daily, Jan 1999
The results of the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act |
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Hoover's Second Wrecking of American Agriculture, by James Bovard, Freedom Daily
"The Farm Board was certain that a world shortage of wheat was imminent and that importing nations would soon come begging to America. Instead, Canadian and Argentinean farmers reaped windfall profits ... Its massive cache ... depressed world prices, since every grain dealer in the world knew that the United States would eventually dump its surplus on the market." |
| Parity: Bureaucratic Tyranny by Moral Fraud, by James Bovard, Freedom Daily, Sep 1999 |
Mises: Defender of Freedom, by George Reisman, Mises.org Daily Article, 29 Sep 2006
Related Topics: Ludwig von Mises, Capitalism, Law of Comparative Advantage, Socialism
"... the effect of the competition between farmers using horses and those using tractors was not that the former group died of starvation, but that everyone had more food and the income available to purchase additional quantities of other goods as well. This was true even of the farmers who 'lost' the competition, as soon as they relocated in other areas of the economic system, which were enabled to expand precisely by virtue of the improvements in agriculture." |
Piercing through Myths, Lies, and Stupidity, by George C. Leef, Freedom Daily, Aug 2006
Related Topics: John Stossel, Compulsory Education, Politics
"Farmers and the politicians who pander for their support have built up a stout wall of myths to protect the programs that compel the taxpayer to subsidize the growing (or not growing) of crops. Stossel interviews two brothers who own a 12,000-acre farm in California and receive government price-support payments. They claim that their costs have risen faster than prices and they wouldn't make any profit without the subsidies." |
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| 1621 ... Squanto Teaches Pilgrims How to Grow Corn!, by Chuck Asay, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, 20 Nov 2007 |
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