| > Believe it or not governments have a pretty strong interest in knowing this sort of thing so the data is certainly there! professional researcher speaking -- your elementary-school approach is for someone else > I last checked a few years ago, farms employing little or no outside laborers were a small minority. news to no one > You can twiddle with it if you want but to me that seems like a pretty reasonable definition of "hobby farming." dismissal with faint praise, check > The ideal of the small, self-sufficient, productive and profitable family farm is just that, an ideal and to a large extent a myth. you now speak for all people in all ages, (edit) confident? If you want to show up as a voice of reason, you will need to show some better understanding of economic contexts over the last thousand years, not the latest NYTimes |