The Agricultural Crisis as a Crisis of Culture

This article talks about the personal experience of the author. During author's boyhood, Henry County was a place where people produce their own meat, milk, eggs, and growing their own farms with a forceful life. But after WW II all things get a change. More and more lands are owned by the speculators and people with technological agriculture. With the highly develop of the farming, the life of the farmers then starts getting more comfort, as Maurice Telleen called "the world's first broad-based hedonism". But, author's point on this high develop farming is not quite positive. He thinks food should be grow in cultural way, and cannot produced with technology. He had relates this to a policy, "Get big or get out". The economic force from the government. He also gives out example of the harm of the scientific agriculture to the nature and the whole universe system. However, the develop of scientific agriculture is continuing.