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Growing for Big Profit on a Small Parcel of Land. According to a recent Census of Agriculture, the most productive farmland in the United States is in the Borough of the Bronx! The second most productive farmland is in the City of San Francisco! You can earn up to eight times the average personal income on as little as one acre of land. You can be male or female, old or young, married or single. You can lease, own, or rent. You can succeed with small fruits on prairie beach lands, house plants in costal valleys, flowers on steep wooded hillsides, vegetables in city greenbelts and ornamentals in neighborhoods of million dollar homes. Tune in every week to Michael Olson's Food Chain Radio , participate in our online Forum, or purchase the book " MetroFarm" , or read Michael's definition of Metropolitan Agriculture to learn more.
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MEXIFORNIA

(Food Chain Radio #587)

Agriculture is always has been, and always will be a labor- intensive business. Throughout history, many attempts have been made to reduce the cost of this labor. The most egregious of these practices, of course, was slavery.

The practice most evident today is illegal immigration. A porous border between the United States and Mexico, combined with little or no rule of law, provides agriculture, and other industries, with a never-ending supply of cheap labor.

The impact immigration from Latin America is having on the United States is profound. At present rates of births and immigration, by 2050 one-fourth of the American population will be Hispanic.

This population trend is most evident in border states like California, which gained an estimated 10 million immigrants from Mexico during the past two decades.

Some say this cheap labor brings in $25 billion in net revenue for the U.S. every year. Others say the cheap labor costs the U.S. $40 billion more than it brings in every year. And so we ask:

How expensive is cheap labor? (Forum # 587)

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