Two Trends of Great Agricultural Significance
2023
Baker, O. E.
Excerpts: We shall consider primarily two trends, the profound significance of which is seldom realized - (1) the gradual loss of land ownership by farming people, apparently by most city people also, and (2) the declining birth rate. The first trend has progressed to the stage where considerably less than half of the farm real estate in the Nation is really owned by farmers; in some of the richest agricultural States only about a fourth. I postulate as a basic principle of national policy, the widespread private ownership of the land, for the ownership of the land by farmers is the ultimate assurance, in my opinion, of freedom and democracy, and, it may develop, of scientific progress. I postulate, secondly, as a basic principle of national policy the reproduction of the race (people); for if the Nation is transitory, all objectives take on the flavor of futility.
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