All Farming is Good Farming In the future you will go to the grocery store and pay $15 a pound for pork and $20 a pound for beef. World hunger outside the United States will be rampant due to inadequate food supplies. Homes will start popping up all over prime farmland across the United States. If we continued to criticize corporate agriculture, this is the world we would be looking at. Family farms would thrive because there is little competition. The world as a whole would suffer because small farms in the United States could no longer provide food to the world, let alone their own citizens. The agricultural sector as a whole is failing and that is why we see family farms disappearing from the market. panorama of America. America has lost 300,000 farmers since 1979 (Wilkinson). Dr Hudson, a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Illinois, told the Chicago Tribune: "As an industry as a whole, agriculture presents little opportunity for growth." He then went on to say, “Agriculture itself is not a growth sector… The challenge for farmers is to be good managers” (Gunset). People must be good farm managers to be successful, no matter how large the farm may be. People against the corporate farming system want to say that big farms are putting small farms out of business. This is absolutely not true. The main reason I believe family farms are struggling is because agriculture is a labor-intensive industry. You never get a break from this. Every day farmers must feed animals, take care of crops and facilities, all while worrying about time and their own finances. People don't want to work as hard as it takes to run a family farm. I must say that any agriculture is good agriculture. Agriculture... at the center of the paper... should rise up and maintain the United States as an agricultural power in the world. Works Cited Cristison, Bill, Family Farmers Expresses Strong Opposition to 2002 Farm Bill. June 2002. October 20, 2003 http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ra02/bcfb02.htmlGunset, George, “More Ways to Keep 'em in farming", Chicago Tribune 1 January 1989, page 49. Employment. Online request. October 16, 2003 Cristison, Bill, "Bill Cristison's Statement at Rural America Press Conference," March 20. 2000. October 20, 2003 http://www.nffc.net/press1.htmWelsh, Rick, “Anti-Corporate Farm Laws, the Goldschmidt Hypothesis, and Rural Community Welfare,” Friends of the Constitution. 16 October 2003 http://www.i300.org/anti_corp_farming.htmWilkinson, Todd, "An Agrarian Revolt on the Harsh Plains of South Dakota,” Christian Science Monitor. November 2, 1999. Pg.1. Request online. October 16. 2003.