The farming in America had and has a higher success rate because most of the farms in the United States are more family owned and family corporations are more popular. The agriculture here may have been better because the people that worked the farms got profits that match the output they have. When in the USSR they got the same amount of profits no matter how much output the workers have. Also many of the USSR’s best farmers were put into industrial plants, while the US had 15 of its population as successful farmers. America also has more trading opportunities because it trades with more countries than just the ones with their economic status, while the USSR usually just trades with other communistic countries like China and North Korea.