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To: Carry_Okie

So you have a problem with supplying nitrogen for corn. American agriculture is the shining star, the nations #1 industry, #1 export, and what is made in America. It is not like the government, you are free not to buy their products. Stop acting like a lib and be grateful for a cheap and abundant food supply.


48 posted on 01/05/2014 2:09:22 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Neoliberalnot
So you have a problem with supplying nitrogen for corn.

Don't put words in my mouth.

Stop acting like a lib and be grateful for a cheap and abundant food supply.

This has nothing to do with food and everything to do with the Farm Bill and ethanol mandates. Stop acting like a RINO whore and be grateful for free enterprise.

53 posted on 01/05/2014 2:19:23 PM PST by Carry_Okie (0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

“be grateful for a cheap and abundant food supply.”

At what cost?

Are farmers replacing the trace minerals extracted from the soil? What are they doing to increase soil fertility? No till farming has reduced the soil losses which is great.

Imagine that the soil is a person. Injecting ammonium nitrate as a way for ever increasing yields, reminds me of other human behavior. We hand our farms and soil down to our kids and grand kids. Are we leaving it better or are we trashing it?

I don’t hate farmers, without them we would be in a world of hurt. That being said, much of their information comes from government, government schools, corporations that influence government and farmers. It makes me uncomfortable that our smaller farmers were pushed into becoming huge operations or sold their operations to large corporate farms. This has reduced our vision to very short horizons. What is the long view for the future? Are we leaving our farmland in better shape?

This is all on a thread discussing China’s trashing of a huge chunk of farmland. We should look long and hard at our farming practices.


73 posted on 01/06/2014 4:19:40 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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