Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/211/en

Beyond this, the value-formation of agricultural primary production is determined by two properties: first, by the capacity to reproduce itself again within the production process itself; and second, to become food for human being and animal. The grain of wheat, for example, together with the soil into which it is sown, is a means of production for the next harvest, and at the same time it is bread grain. The cow reproduces herself in the calf, and bound up with this process is her capacity to give more milk than is required for rearing the calf. The means of production of agriculture have the property of being able to reproduce themselves within the production process and at the same time become food for human being and animal. It falls to the farmer to so shape the conditions of cultivation and husbandry that both capacities sustain themselves at a high level within the production process — lastingly, in balance with one another. That means: he must cultivate the wheat and so on here and now, must keep, feed, tend and breed the cow and so on, in such a way that these means of production of the living preserve their distinctive properties into the far future