Things are changin’ down on the farm
Marty Lucas, over at the Big Eastern, gives a good overview today of some of the issues raised in the Daniels’ administrations agricultural plan, Possibilities Unbound: The Plan for 2025, that I linked to over here.
Marty brings into focus, for me at least, some of the implications of Gov. Daniels vision for the future of agriculture in this state. Upfront, it appears that Daniels is acknowledging that the “save the family farm” movement (think Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid) is over, and the family farm no longer fits into a rational approach to successful agriculture. Instead, the focus is on these mega farms, farms that require the sophistication that can only be consistently maintained by larger corporations, like NPPII. It will also require that us inhabitants of the non-Marion-County-related portions of Indiana hold our noses, or get used to the stench.
