Family farms are valuable for important factors like social, ethical and economic reasons. However, it is not easy to gain that power back because of the current policies in that time. This book reveals the biases in America on farm policies that absurdly inspire expansion. Biases are in areas of income tax provisions, subsidized credit services, and federal commodity programs. After the farm financial crisis on the 80’s, family farms changed becoming more specialized, increase requirement in large amounts of money to produce goods and services, weaker to the unsteady conditions in agriculture. This lead to a greater financial risk and public aid to expand farms is more common and expensive.
This book also discusses the internal conflicts between the private interests of individual farmers and the public interests in family farming as a whole (cite). It open the eyes to the notion that bigger is better, and analyses the technological base of current agriculture, and ecological, ethical and economic farming practices.