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You know how cops are always busting people with houses full of marijuana plants? What if you did all of that but with potatoes instead of marijuana? What if you had an entire house full of grow lights and potato plants in buckets and then every inch of lawn on your property had potatoes and not a single blade of grass?

Would anyone care? Would the cops come along and put a stop to it? If not, how many more potatoes would you have to grow before something like that happened?

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[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which industry? At the time of this ruling most farms were individual farmers.

[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But Roosevelt, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, and other top aides cared more about conciliating the powerful, conservative cohort of southern Democrats they considered vital to New Deal legislative majorities.

Wallace therefore fired Agriculture Department radicals in 1935, making clear that the New Deal would do little to threaten the power of planters and agribusiness interests.

.... Meanwhile, the STFU collapsed; its defeat would prove a harbinger of the massive, decades-long transformation in American agriculture, a mid-twentieth-century development that pushed millions of small farmers off the land and into cities.

Well yeah the land did not go away, it was all gobbeled up by the big players. One could argue it was an industry, even if it was in it's infancy 15 years after the dust bowl. By todays standard, where just one man owns 12% of US farmland it may seem like peanuts but these southern plantations were/are impressively huge.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I see, at this point there were already large tenant and share croppers (former slave owning plantations) who did not reap the supposed shared benefits of the AAA.

It seems the idyllic American farmer hasn’t existed for longer than I’d imagined.