Bob Neal: The Countryman: Evermore efficiency
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Evermore efficiency Almost from its start in 1906, the Department of Agriculture has pushed just one kind of efficiency: labor. The most common measure of labor efficiency is income per farmer, so the USDA has pushed factory farming to produce more income per farmer. But it comes at the expense of efficient use of land and machinery. Not to mention the quality of food. Read Article Bob Neal As Maine and America emerged this week from pandemic restrictions, we read that our economy has begun re-righting itself, but that we have too few workers — too few of the ki...