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Hi, I'm Amanda! My family farms corn and soybeans in Southwest Michigan. I'm also a practicing attorney.
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I love agriculture + technology. ☕️
These mass tort cases--and the lawyers who bring them---are an absolute nightmare. While they once focused on pharmaceutical companies, they now have agriculture in their sights. And millions of consumers see advertisements about how dangerous crop-protection tools are, leading them to believe it's accurate.
Opinion: Trial lawyers target agriculture products in 'Judicial Hellholes'
www.agri-pulse.com
In this opinion piece, Tiger Joyce with the American Tort Reform Association discusses trial lawyers' focus on agriculture products.
I promise I'm not playing Chicken Little when I talk about about issues facing agriculture can and may impact all of us! The egg-price ordeal is the perfect example!
Chicken Little? Egg Prices Say Not-So-Fast - The Farmer's Daughter USA
thefarmersdaughterusa.com
When farmers talk about concerns of drought, disease, and weather, it isn't just to create an atmosphere of alarmism. Egg prices prove it.
Wanda is an excellent person to follow if you have questions about modern hog production.
How much of that acreage is farmed by the 95%? How much of that acreage are real family farms, in the hundreds of acres – and how much farmland belongs to large corporations? Your picture doesn't really tell me any of this.
I think you're missing several key points here. First of fall, "corporate farms" can be "family farms" too. For example, our family farm incorporated just this year. Many families do that for a variety of reasons, including personal protection from liability. So, I'm not sure what you mean by family farms vs. corporate farms.Here: <a href="https://www.thefarmersdaughterusa.com/2014/02/our-family-farm-just-became-corporation.htmlhttps://www.thefarmersdaughterusa.com/2014/02/our-… />Also, the size of the farm has nothing to do with whether the farm is a family farm. For example, my family farms about 2,000 acres. When I asked my followers on FB how many acres they grew, the sizes varied, but many said 2,000 acres. So, that isn't uncommon. Quite frankly, it would be very difficult for a family to only farm "hundreds" of acres and stay in business. You need more acres than that to really stay in business, especially with corn and soybeans.I hope that clears up some of your confusion.