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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 5 points 19 hours ago

Generally speaking these are the large companies doing this while pretending to be small farmers.

Farmer A through F are family members. They each have their "own" farm, just inside the limit to make it a small farm. Farmer A also has a "small" farm with Farmer B, and C, and D, and E, and F, each qualifying as a "small" farm. Do the same with the rest of the mixes.

The reality is that these "small" farms are really one 400 acre farm run by the same people, worked by the same people (migrants being taken advantage of with illegally low wages).

The actually small farms do benefit from a lot of the programs, and that can be a really good thing. Its unfortunate though that there are enough loopholes that large scale corporate farming finds ways to abuse the system by cosplaying as "small farm" owners.