Is GCCC done with public on this forum?

Maybe GCCC is done with the public? Or did discussion move somewhere other than the forum lightingboy created? Well, he gave it a good try at least. Thanks for all those posts, I rather regret that I can't follow up on a few things mouthpiece and I were discussing and other stuff. Hopefully every one is just busy doing things for the holidays.

It is my understanding that although the thread was closed we may start a new thread that is related but not the same.

Are you really serious about a debate on family farms vs. corporate farms. The financial harm in corporate farms is well documented as to the negative effects to rural communities.

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I have been wondering what documentation sources are being used to say that dairies owned and controled by the producer group and not the processing plant are economically a drain on communities. The economics of dairies are different than for the livestock that takes less labor. I read some references from lightingboy but the studies or literature reviews referred to almost everything big in agriculture and not specifically to dairies. The County Commissioners certainly feel that dairies are an economic boon to a county- you know "value added ag".

The mere fact that a few well-meaning Commissioners have been incorrectly convinced that it is for the betterment of the community is not proof.

The proof I refer to are Congressional Hearings in the 1990's. After farming improved there have been few if any studies so the evidence is quite strong that corporate farms harm rural communities.

If you have a study please let me know. I was an understudy to James Wadley who was a leading scholar on Agricultural law and Rural Development.

Quite frankly, this argument was made in Minnesota in the late 80's and early 90's directly related to dairy. The west central part of Minnesota was loaded with dairy farms. Many were lost and the small communities were also financially displaced.

The population boom to the Stearns County region created non-farm jobs for many displaced family farmers in the early 90's.

Von keep up the good work.

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Hello, mounthpiece. The debate over cooperate farms is different than the debate over large livestock farms and large family farms. Switching the topic to cooperate farms from large livestock operations, fine but I was interested in livestock farms.