“Most corn/soy grown is patented. Monsanto/Bayer owns the seed and farmers have to buy new seed every year because they’re not allowed to save seed.”
And thus has a emerged a market for non-GMO soy/seed. A large farm near me is having growers do just that and the growers get a premium.
Drats the the evildoers have been thwarted again by those meddling kids!
I think that’s one reason tptb are suddenly in a hurry. I saw an interview of a farmer in NC that made the switch back to non-gmo corn/soy. It seems the number of roundup resistant weeds is increasing by the year so between buying the expensive seed every year, buying the roundup and still having to do mechanical cultivation to control weeds, the Bayer owned seed/roundup method is becoming unsustainable.
Their first major high tech food project is starting to fail.
There are farmers of the hundreds of acres size that are starting to figure out how to grow corn/soy with almost no fertilizer, pesticide or vegetation killer like roundup, using cover crops. The cover crop seed is cheaper than fertilizer and they’re planting right into a green cover crop that’s been terminated by an attachment called a roller/crimper, usually cereal rye. Vegetation killers like roundup is often used to chemically terminate a cover crop.
There are no-till market gardeners/farmers that use no fertilizer or pesticide. They are using a shit ton of compost and after a few years, their soil is so healthy and alive that the plants are super healthy and have a high sugar content which most pests can’t tolerate.
There’s a race going on right now between these innovative farmers who are moving to natural systems, healthy living soil and the technocrats that want to make or modify things in a lab and grow in high tech facilities.
One group is trying to figure out and work with the super complex system that God created for us. The other thinks they are gods. A few years ago, I read that scientists still don’t fully know exactly what breast milk is made up of. Meanwhile Gates is trying to produce man-made breast milk.