BTW, I’m not your enemy here; I’m trying to teach you something. I have a lot of respect for farmers, but I do think the system must change over the long run. I’m in the process of writing a book about that.
I farmed for 10 years; my degree is in agriculture. I am in the middle of ethanol country. I don’t like ethanol; only because it is an artificially created market with tax subsidies and now the EPA mandate to use it. Let the market decide.
Farmers generally do good job of taking care of the soil here. When I farmed; I used no till farming when I could.