When we let the cow be the cow, in all her simple glory, she doesn’t enslave us to expensive infrastructure. That’s our doing, not hers. The average farm in America requires $4 worth of buildings and equipment to generate $1 in annual gross sales. At our farm, the ratio is 50 cents to $1. That’s an 800 percent difference in capital costs. Note that I’m not putting the land into this equation at all. Heavy capitalization costs enslave farmers to the equipment dealer, the banker, the mortgage company. A liberated farmer doesn’t spend much time on bended knee in front of lending institutions.
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