There must be a reason that Mississippi grows more cotton than Montana, or why Florida produces more watermelons than North Dakota. The reason is accidents of location and climate. If this was not so then Alaska would grow more oranges than California, don't Alaska and California both border...
It seems that the more things change the more that they remain the same. In the 1940s and 1950s my family and I raised pastured broilers. It was quite commend then to see 10, 20, 40, and 80 acres or even larger broiler pastures dotted across the country side. These poultry pastures were...