As We Sow Part 2: Farming for Wages

As farmers leave the land in record numbers, agribusiness and the associated industrialization of agriculture continue to expand. The consequences—intended and unintended—of this rapid restructuring of our food system reach well beyond the boundaries of what we think of as "the family farm." The award-winning documentary short, AS WE SOW, documents the stories of survival and failure in the real heartland, a struggle pitting family against family, neighbor against neighbor, citizens against their government, and small, independent farmers against the giants of global agribusiness. At the center is the land itself: who will control it and how, and at what cost to people and communities, to our health and our environment, and, ultimately, to our democracy.

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[shifragri]

I don't feel sorry for these people, it was good why it lasted, but things have change now. I bet their settler/squatter ancestors didn't think twice about "buying" i.e. stealing the native Americans' land.

[rtg237]

Convenience and low prices are trumping real values. People don't want to know the real state of their food system and big companies want it that way

[Indaloman2009]

Id recommend reading Tavistock of Human Relations to get better insight on why the family farmer is going extinct.

[LunaGer]

"high quality food protein"  Yummmm :/

[randy109]

Farming, as we fondly remember the "family farm" scenario of Americana is a total thing of the past. Even if someone gave you a 100 acres and a degree in Agriculture you could not succeed in the 21st century farming scenario. The American vision of the Family Farm is such a thing of the past that we just torture ourselves in longing for the "good old days"...

[pondman27]

These systems do not produce food. The toxic legacy they will endow is found within the disease & polution such systems generate.

Diversity was the hallmark of the healthy ecosystem & farm.

Fed on GM & pumped full of anti-biotics these systems will be the death of people

[tacotony24]

Where is # 3??? Kindly post it - very interesting.

[tonyscelis]

I come from Venezuela and i always admired US farmers, now i see them dissapear and for me is a huge shame that they cannot work anymore because the industralization kill all of them. I support those family who appeared in this video and i hope they DO NOT GIVE UP! Farming is the best way of life and i hope they can find another solution.

[cummins12vpower]

yes i would recomend all 3 of these video's to everyone

[simondina]

its a shame that only 100 people have watched this - it should be required