Re:The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming
by samatman on Sunday April 25, 2021 @09:36PM
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With more than 600,000 Mennonites in the US (this includes the Amish), it's likely that Mennonite farms alone total half (100,000) as many farms as the UK has in total.
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Re:The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming
by xnyan on Sunday April 25, 2021 @11:44PM
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I am kind of convinced that the answer to every question “why is the US <blank>/why does the US <blank> and etc is “we have a imperial crapton of fertile land relative to population.”
It’s definitely the answer to why do we have so many small to medium farms. If you really really want to do it, anyone (with some money and a shitton of work) can buy land and try to grow things on it - this is not the case in most of the world, population density in places with farmable land tends to be too high to be generally accessible to the bulk of the population.