On Sunday, September 15, 2019 at 9:18:59 AM UTC-4, Dean Hoffman wrote:
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.


I wonder what, if anything, has happened to the geniuses at Bayer that
bought Monsanto for top dollar just before those Roundup cases went
into the toilet with hundreds of millions of judgments awarded? I mean,
that's got to be one of the worst acquisition moves ever. Did they even
do any due diligence to correctly assess the risks?

Now if you look at late night TV, the shyster lawyers are running 30 min
infomercials rounding up everyone they can to sue Bayer for their big
pay day. Monsanto probably should have had some warning on the labels
saying it could be harmful, not to get it on yourself, etc. Silly me,
but I've always treated any herbicide, pesticide, most solvents, etc
that way. The first case was a janitor that claimed he was covered in
it many times, applying it around a school. i've sprayed it around the
property here for decades, I've never been covered in it. I do usually
apply it and any other products after I'm done with any other work and take
a shower afterwards. Call me logical.




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.