The future of small farms

Having family near Alva, I read the Alva Review-Courier article "Looking at the future of agriculture" (Dec. 6 issue). The writer was speculating that most likely larger corporate farms will increase in the future. Sadly, I tend to agree. Back when my late grandparents were alive in the mid-1920s, they had two parcels of 160 acres each, plus one 40 acre tract, plus a smaller 20 acre tract.

The Great Depression caused some lands to be sold. In time, my grandma kept the bulk. But I recall my dad saying that over in Europe at the time, farmers thought that 5- to 25-acre tracts were a lot to farm....