from NY Times Editorial - Death of a Farm

edward A. (United States of America)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01sun2.html?ref=editorials

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  1. subsidize
    support, as through grants or other funds
    Each year it has become harder for family farms to compete with industrial scale agriculture — heavily subsidized by the government — underselling them at every turn.
  2. precarious
    not secure; beset with difficulties
    It was a precarious operation at the start — as all farming was in the new colonies—and it became precarious enough again in these past few years to peter out at last.
  3. subsidized
    having partial financial support from public funds
    Each year it has become harder for family farms to compete with industrial scale agriculture — heavily subsidized by the government — underselling them at every turn.
  4. integration
    the act of combining into a whole
    In a system committed to the health of farms and their integration with local communities, the result would have been different.
  5. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
    In 2010, it is suddenly superfluous, or so we like to pretend.
  6. cite
    make reference to
    In a letter on their Web site, the Tuttles cite “exhaustion of resources” as the reason to sell the farm.
Created on 八月 1, 2010 (updated 八月 1, 2010)

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