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Xrati said:
Thanks Baron, that was an interesting article. I believe that all corporations, including agro-business are going to price themselves out of the market. As they become larger they keep adding on more office jobs and lose the extra profit they may have gained from growth. They keep blaming THE WORKERS while most big companies are so top heavy they can no longer profit until they reduce the non-product related jobs. This article confirms it on these farms that use horses. They are tripling their profits (far better then corporate farms) by getting away from mechanization of their farm equipment which is reducing their maint. bills and no overhead.
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**bangs head into wall**
So going back to Agricultural revloution farming is the way forward is it?
So 90 hours work for 100 boxes of corn is better than 2.5 hours work for the same amount?
That's the difference mechanisation makes. Yields of corn are tricky, I assume these farmers do you fertiliser, pesticides etc? If they do they shold get good yeilds, if if they don't it will be far lower.
Anyway with a small farm you can spend hours on one acre, when your farming thousands of
Hectares of land in fields bigger than most of these horse farms it just isn't practical.
Oh and that's triple per acre NOT triples profits,
if its true. Which I doubt as its from a self confessed bias source who has no reason to be positive about agri-biz.
The corporation still has so many advantages over small scale that they aren't going out of buisness. All those extra office jobs aren't for fun, they're what the law requires. Health and Safety, pensions, tax deductions, etc. No-one wants them, but you have to have them to stay in buisness.
I would put money that is the US version of the health and safety boys turned up on any of those farms they would tear them apart. They are going to be breaking dozens of rules and regulations. I'm not saying they're dangerous, but I bet they don't have risk assessments, impact plans and all the paperwork a company has to have by law.
All that paperwork is a waste of space, but that doesn't make it any less a legal requirement. One man and his horse can hide under the radar and not bother with it, a large corporation can't.