Editing Corporate farming (section)

==== Contract farming ====
Farming [[Contract farming|contracts]] are agreements between a farmer and a buyer that stipulates what the farmer will grow and how much they will grow usually in return for guaranteed purchase of the product or financial support in purchase of inputs (e.g. feed for livestock growers).<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.fao.org/ag/ags/contract-farming/faq/en/|title = Contract Farming Resource Centre: FAQ|date = 2014|access-date = 27 October 2014|website = Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations|archive-date = 23 November 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161123083356/http://www.fao.org/ag/ags/contract-farming/faq/en/|url-status = dead}}</ref>  In most instances of contract farming, the farm is family owned while the buyer is a larger corporation.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://www.pugetsound.edu/files/resources/6926_00-6.pdf|title = The Impact of Contract Farming on Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence|last = Warning|first = Matthew|date = 30 June 2000|journal = Western Economics Association International Annual Meetings|access-date = 27 October 2014}}</ref> This makes it difficult to distinguish the contract farmers from "corporate farms," because they are family farms but with significant corporate influence.  This subtle distinction left a loop-hole in many state laws that prohibited corporate farming, effectively allowing corporations to farm in these states as long as they contracted with local farm owners.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.celdf.org/anti-corporate-farming-laws-in-the-heartland|title = Anti–Corporate Farming Laws in the Heartland|access-date = 27 October 2014|website = Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund|archive-date = 2 October 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151002225605/http://www.celdf.org/anti-corporate-farming-laws-in-the-heartland|url-status = dead}}</ref>