MrsHaloFIRE
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Is there some reason that family farms and other businesses must be inherited? Can't you start your own if that's what you want to do for a living? That's what the vast run of humanity does - find something they can do to make money to live on.
Having grown up on a family farm I will take a wild stab at that. Couple reasons we dont want farms to go away after 1 generation. Immense amount of capital required to run a farm which takes generations to build. Equipment, expertise, appropriate land management so it will yield correctly, acquisition of complimentary parcels to give you access to soil you need. Also, as someone who likes to eat, I dont want every farm having to start over every generation with someone looking around for land. Yeah there are big commercial farms, but there are also BIG privately owned farms that bring you your eggs, milk and produce. EVen the pretty flowers you like in a vase.
My family's farm has been ENTIRELY encircled with subdivisions. If it were to hit the market it would turn into prob a golf community in approx 10 months time from date of death. You cant just fly out west, land at an airport, go walk around and find an appropriate available parcel and commence to farming. its takes decades to even get decent, establish your suppliers and to whom youre selling. Treat and condition your soil. Learn more about it and do it again. Determine what grows best on what parcel given sun, water, soil conditions. Learn your pests.
TO me the idea of selling every farm at the death of the original farmer is like erasing the research of a scientist when he/she dies. Maybe next generation will figure out cancer in a single career, but we have to destroy all this research because this person died. Kids, go get a "REAL" job bc Gumby doesnt think you should farm on your parent's land. (sarcasm intended)