Billionaire-funded group quietly taking farmland out of production in rural US

> During the 1940s, the colonial government printed extraordinary amounts of money for military expenditure. All this new demand caused prices to soar, particularly for staple goods. The price of rice increased by 300 per cent. But because wages did not rise accordingly, ordinary people were pushed even deeper into poverty, forcing them to dramatically curtail their consumption of food and other goods. Meanwhile, any additional profits that fell into the laps of business owners as a result of the price inflation were taxed by the colonial state.

This sounds scarily similar to USA, except it’s not that extreme yet.

For many people property taxes serve this function. Billionaires can afford the taxes without using the land to produce though.

My family owns some ranch and farmland that we farmed for 150 years. My retired father still has to grow hay and lease grazing land to just make the property tax requirement.

Imagine you have a property and somebody says you that you are forced to buy him/her a tractor and became a farmer

A spanish jury has to explain the last month to farmers that keeping biodiversity has priority over hunting and fishing. Not each inch of territory must be a farm.