On 9/15/19 7:46 AM, Shadow wrote:
On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 20:30:44 -0700, Bob F wrote:

The whole thing is like a Soviet 5 year plan developed by pre-schoolers.
The tariff hoo-hah is just the latest chapter. Why the hell should US
farmers be dependent on a market in China? When you overproduce you have
to dump the product someplace.


I wonder what percentage of the farm welfare payments are going to
mega-ag corporate businesses? And how many of the few small farms are
being sucked up by them.

You mean firms like Monsanto?
It would never happen in Amerika.
If that nasty transgenic Monsanto pollen ever contaminated a
farmer's corn, he would sue for rape. And make the lobbies pay for it.
Justice would only side with the government (AKA lobbies) in a
communist dictatorship.
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You'll have to pick on Bayer now. Monsanto merged with Bayer
and the
Monsanto name was dropped. Yes, the people who make Alka Seltzer, Aleve,
Aspirin, One a Day vitamins and other things.
The guys who care about cross pollination are the guys who raise the
seed corn.
They have rules to follow to prevent that contamination. One of those
is no corn
in the particular field the year before planting the seed corn. There
are a lot more
soybeans around here partly because of that.