Farming Isn't What It Was.

The article focuses on the problems in farming. The U.S. Congress has begun its annual debate on how much and what the federal government should do for agriculture. It has been assumed that arguments that make economic sense may not make political sense: any farm program that is adopted no doubt must reconcile the politically feasible and the economically reasonable. The reality in recent years is that farmers have become United States' most rapidly, shrinking minority, farm production has become a business and the rural life is increasingly available to people who are not engaged in agriculture.