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Content: Consequently, the productivity and profitability of such farms are not
sustainable. Sustainable farming
systems must be ecologically sound and socially responsible if they are to be
economically viable, and thus, sustainable over time. Many farms today have expanded beyond their naturally healthy
size. Their health is declining each
year, and they are dying a slow death. Many farms today have become too big to live. It seems reasonable to ask why so many farms have become so
large. Why would so many farmers
organize their farm resources in ways that ultimately destroy its health and
its long run viability? The answer is,
they have lost sight of the fact that a farm is a living organism. Instead, they treat their farms as if they
were inanimate mechanisms. In the minds
of many farmers today, a farm is simply a factory without a roof and fields and
feed lots are nothing more than biological assembly lines.