Tuesday, April 7, 2015

US vs. USSR Agriculture 101


What are the differences between Soviet Union agriculture and the agricultural practices of the United States? It all starts with the role of the government in our society. The Soviet Union has a communistic government which is based on the idea “that everyone shares everything” and that is why their agriculture is the way it is. It started with many small farms that the government owned but farmers farmed, the thing is they weren’t making the maximum production they could. Later the government decided to merge all the individual farms into large state collective farms, that government continued to own.

In the United States we do things differently. The government doesn’t own our farms but they have a few different regulations and rules that we have to follow but for the most part we can ultimately do whatever we want to our fields. We can grow any crops we want on them and we can sell them and receive the profit for them because we own them not the government.

The thing that is the most different between our ways of living and our ways of farming is government conflict. The government is concerned with how we live and with what we do on our farms, because that helps our economy and keeps our country running. Where in the USSR the government owns everything and they receive all of the profits from farming. So the work ethic from farmer in the US is better than those in the USSR due to the fact that the US farmer gets to keep his earnings after he sells his crops.

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