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American farmers impression - U.S. rural visit scattered

Last year was invited to visit the United States, mainly to see the rural areas. Indeed saw, listened to, and found a lot of written materials, but unfortunately did not have time to record some of the insights, now do this thing may not be too late.

Like the Chinese farmers, farmers in the United States there is no? Walking around, one might say there are none left, but in fact there are still some. In some rural areas of the northern and central United States, there are some people of German descent, influenced by their own kind of religion, refused to use industrialized products, and even do not use electricity, tractors, and even cameras. In the United States, they are known as the Amish. As times have changed, so has their behavior, and some of the Amish have begun to use tractors, but on the whole they are still quite "conservative". On the modern roads, it was like entering a "time tunnel" with Amish four-wheeled wagons on one side of the road and automobiles on the other. When you arrive at an Amish store, you see candles flickering, and there is nothing modern about the store. Even the educational standards of the Amish are not good. One Amish man asked me if there was agriculture in China. He probably thought that American food feeds the world. I'm sure that the cultural standards of contemporary Chinese farmers are generally not much worse than those of American Amish farmers.

Of course, most American farmers are still engaged in farming under modernized conditions, and also possess a high degree of economic efficiency in farming. The average farm is several hundred hectares or more in size and uses mostly mechanized means of cultivation, so costs are relatively low. I visited a farm, the cultivated area of 3,000 hectares, with all kinds of large agricultural machinery, grain warehouses, but also hundreds of cattle and many pigs, operating the farm, in addition to the owner and his son, but also hired a partner, the partner also enjoys a certain degree of rights and interests of the owner of the farm. His giant planter is also equipped with a satellite positioning system and has a data exchange function that allows it to work while exchanging data with an agricultural science and technology center somewhere and immediately adjust the parameters of the machine automatically accordingly.

Life as a farmer is relatively comfortable. The farmer who hosted me does not live with his son and has his own separate house. The house has three floors, with a shower room and a storehouse for household goods on the bottom floor, and the living quarters on the top two floors. The house was clean and the facilities inside were quite modern, with internet facilities. The low-cost housing built by local governments for poorer farmers in the United States also looks good. Farmers are actually very "traditional" in their outlook, not like what some people say they are. I remember when my host's son came back from hunting, he would bring some meat to his parents, and they would give their son a share of the gifts I brought them. The daughter-in-law also had a coy look when she met a stranger, much like the village women I met during my research in the country. I remember when I was cooking dinner, they forgot to turn off the outdoor gas stove, and when I told them to turn it off, they looked very distressed, not concerned.

The American farmer is really a cog in the wheel of a larger agricultural economy, not an entire agricultural machine. This is the main reason why American farmers engage in efficient production. In fact, a farmer does not need much knowledge and requires few skills (but must be able to use a wide range of farm machinery), and a great deal of the pre-production and post-production of agriculture is done by staff from other parts of the process, most of which fall under the auspices of state universities or branches of the Department of Agriculture. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is the largest department of the federal government, with a staff of 100,000 people. Many universities also have strong teams supporting agriculture.

U.S. farmers are generally not very concerned with politics, and political issues that concern them are always handled aggressively by enthusiastic "volunteers" and leaders of the Farmers Union, whom they trust. I attended a local farmers' "volunteer" meeting where participants discussed the relationship between local farmers and residents of the lower Mississippi River. The downstreamers were complaining that the upstream farmers were polluting the river with their agricultural practices, and the federal government had stepped in to coordinate and hopefully work out a self-regulatory agreement among the upstream farmers. In China, this might be something that would require direct government intervention, and it's hard to say how effective that intervention would be. But we can also imagine that there would be high costs associated with generating a self-regulatory agreement among farmers in the U.S. However, with the enthusiasm of volunteers, such an agreement could eventually be reached, and its implementation is often more reliable than government action.

U.S. farmers also have complaints about the government. Farmers in Iowa say they want the government to, for one thing, reduce regulations, for another, cut taxes, and for a third, find ways to raise agricultural prices. In fact, U.S. farmers receive many subsidies from the government despite the taxes they pay, and when the two are offset, farmers still receive a net income.

While U.S. farmers have high productivity and good incomes, young people are still reluctant to work in agriculture. The U.S. has a reputation as an "agriculture-based nation," which is more or less the same as the "agriculture-based" one we talk about. The United States has a strong modern industrial sector, part of the government's tax revenues can be used to support agriculture, and there is a tradition of being an honorable farmer, otherwise the source of agricultural labor is really a problem. U.S. agriculture is probably moving in two directions, one is recreational agriculture, one is more modernized agriculture, in both cases the farmers, will be different from the current farmers.