They would buy more if they could, but farmers are not selling. Even in the US—corporate territory par excellence—farmland is largely in the hands of family farmers who resist selling their land. In five years, however, 63 percent of agricultural land will likely be inherited or sold. The question is, “Who will take over”? Corporations or trusts? Banks or family farmers? Right now, the front line of resistance to the financialization of agricultural land in the United States is made up of aging, white family farmers, the producers of genetically modified corn and soybeans who are still stuck
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who owns the land?
