My uncle was a small-herd fairy farmer my entire life. Never had more than a couple dozen cows at a time, always knew all of them by name. He kept on getting squeezed out by larger and larger operations. He eventually went grass-fed organic to try and stay competitive. Then he told me that the large operations have organic mini-farms that they operate. The cows there are kept organic... but only so long as they remain in perfect health. The instant one gets sick, she gets moved over to the bigger factory operation and is pumped full of all the antibiotics that all the rest are kept on.

So, while my uncle is keeping a small herd and who has both financial and moral reasons for wanting to maintain his cows that way, a large factory farm can maintain a nominal organic operation, undercutting small fries like my uncle, but actually only keeping their cows organic for exactly as long as it's convenient, and not a moment longer.

My uncle is retired now, but it hurt me to hear him tell that story. We ought to care about small family farms, but we keep letting capitalist "efficiency" turn every aspect of life on Earth into a market-optimized hellscape.

Monoposony - like a monopoly but a single buyer who can set prices and terms, rather than a single seller.

I went looking for more information about that term and wasn't finding anything. But then the dictionary suggested Monopsony, which I figure is what you meant?

And banks

Also, agriculture is awful... You can't make a living unless you have a lot of product to sell. You can't have a lot of product to sell unless you mechanize. The equipment is prohibitively expensive, so it's only worth doing it if you have a lot of land. And even then, to get decent yields, you need to sow at a specific time, harvest at a specific time, use expensive fertilizers, use expensive machines that can reduce wasting seed or fertilizer.

Even worse, you are at the mercy of wheather. Which, lately, has been shit. And everyone is trying to fuck you, from assholes controlling the markets, the assholes who make and fix the equipment (like John Deere), the asshole neighbor who let their animals escape, and mother nature with pests, diseases, and bad weather.

Every mistake can be costly. Broken equipment is expensive to repair. You might need to build expensive silos to store your product and sell it when the market is more favorable. Expensive because they have to keep things dry and free of pests, mice and rats love cereals. Harvesting when the cereals are too wet is bad, because it can rot and grow into plants, and drying is expensive (but you might be forced to do it because the weather is bad and you want to avoid a complete loss).

Corporate farmers are still farmers. They still live out in farm towns and go to the pub and do the full farmer routine.

!memes@slrpnk.net would be a better fit.

Humans all the way down.

They're all ultimately working for big tumor.

And burning their trash

We need huge farming fields to satisfy the market, aka our bellies, clothing needs, etc..

Not accurate! As an ML you should know that the USSR pioneered and implemented on a large scale far more sustainable agriculture than we've ever seen in the US. Read the book. https://www.iskrabooks.org/communism-the-highest-stage-of-ecology

But at least we now have thousands of individual humans who're as wealthy as whole countries! Truly an achievement. Now keep working, slave.