Tumbledown Farm .9 Acres (give or take an acre or two)

Dear Mr. President, While you are considering ways to create jobs by stimulating small business (both the creation of new businesses and new hiring by existing small businesses), please do not forget the sector of the economy that will produce the biggest bang in hiring (or working and producing, which isn't necessarily the same thing) for the smallest buck. I think you could more or less wipe out unemployment with a small investment in small farms.

Today's NYTimes has a poignant description and photos of the dying farm landscape. With monocrops and machines the rule, we are looking at the stark future, unless and until we gain some sanity in our farm program. Read it -n- weep: Going Down the Road
Vanishing Barns Signal a Changing Iowa By MONICA DAVEY
"The barn, a building whose purpose shifted, then faded away, tells a story of how farming has changed markedly."