Kevin Hall (commentary, May 24) recently provided a glowing account of a 250,000-acre farm in Brazil. The world's largest. The model of high-tech economic efficiency. The wage-earning workers are treated well.
According to USDA's Economic Research Service, North Dakota's farmland totaled 39.29 million acres in 2002, and the state had more than 30,000 farmers. To achieve the scale of the corporately owned Brazilian entity Hall visited, our state would need to have fewer than 160 of these bonanza operations. What is so "lucrative" about this scenario?
