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An agricultural Waterloo

Posted on August 07, 2008

By Jim GoodmanBigger is always better, isn't it? Big cars, big houses, big businesses, big farms. If you were big, you made more money. Clearly, that is the way of the world. When Europeans colonized the Americas, they wanted more land -- not some of it; all of it. Napoleon wanted more land. Nothing stopped him until Waterloo. So, do you think that the human race, has reached its Waterloo? Have we finally hit the wall with our never-ending desire for bigness ? I decided years ago that I didn't want my farming operation to get bigger. I liked milking 45 cows, raising their feed and doing a ...

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economy , ethanol , policies