The Pierce County Board should act to protect its family farmers and our rural community from this very real and imminent threat. Minn. He and his team of researchers found that the process of creating fewer bigger farms does not benefit the county. The county ends up with fewer people, more money flows to non-resident landlords, and more money is spent for products and services not manufactured in the county. Agribusiness and farming are two distinct entities. Agribusiness benefits a few, but farming benefits all of us.
Agribusiness produces food only at the cost of losing family farming and farm communities.
Pierce County should not have to pay this price.