I'd say "All according to plan" but that would be like a tinfoil, nut-job conspiracy! And that would make me like Trevor. Wait, I AM like Trevor!
Posted on 02/01/2023 10:25:03 AM PST by CFW
A regulatory move within Mexico’s agricultural sector has U.S. farmers concerned it will "corn-er" their corn crop production.
"Most farmers, my generation and younger, have never even used conventional corn. We're not set up to do it. We don't have the equipment to do it," Hinkel Farms' Elizabeth Hinkel told FOX Business’ Madison Alworth on "Mornings with Maria" Tuesday. "So it would be a huge investment if we had to go back to growing conventional. And on top of that, our yields would be decreased."
American farmers are headed to Capitol Hill to voice concerns about Mexico’s proposed ban on U.S. imports of genetically modified corn, reportedly warning the move could become the most catastrophic thing to happen to corn farmers.
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Let them eat Canadian corn!
What’s wrong with labeling the products conspicuously ‘GMO’ and ‘Non-GMO’ and let the market decide. Put ‘em on the shelves, side-by-side, and let consumers decide.
Get rid of ethanol subsidies. That’s my answer.
Is there anybody left in Mexico?
Funny how a different group of farmers said the other day that it would be no problem switching back to non GMO corn. Me thinks this particular group may have been compromised by Monsanto.
What, are you a capitalist or something?
I am.
Our prosperity came from capitalism.
They'll be crying for more corn.
“...let the market decide. Put ‘em on the shelves, side-by-side, and let consumers decide.”
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How pre-2020 of you! In this brave world of 2023, everything that’s not forbidden is mandatory. There can not be choices.
Next, they will be slipping a little bit of bug into our snack stuff. And we won’t have a choice there, either.
Well not exactly I’m not sure that genetically modified food is a good thing. But these farmers apparently do and there beef is that they won’t have the generic modified stuff. you know how this works? They buy seeds from a certain company and you have to buy them every time From that company and you can’t like get seed from what they grow and grow again you have to buy seeds from that company the next year. then they have to fertilize them in a certain way according to the company
Its corn. What could go wrong?
Total crap story.
Mexico is considering banning GMO corn imports (I don’t blame them - much of the world doesn’t want it).
A few US farmers (I am sure who are in the back pocked of Monsanto) are complaining that they don’t even know how to grow “conventional corn”. Which is a bald-face lie. It is not significantly different than their GMO crap - just has lower yields and you can’t hyper-saturate it with herbicides like the GMO stuff. It plants the same, grows the same, and harvests the same.
Mexico wants to CORN-er the market on organic tortillas?
When do the fires begin in the corn storage/processing facilities?
“What’s wrong with labeling the products conspicuously ‘GMO’ and ‘Non-GMO’ and let the market decide. Put ‘em on the shelves, side-by-side, and let consumers decide.”
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I agree that’s a good idea. I don’t like the idea of genetically modified corn either. I think artificially altering the make-up of corn will lead to problems down the road. At some point, it could totally stop producing, then were would we be?
Best advice yet ! Our eminent legislators every frickin one of them , voted in what we in the natural community called the Monsanto Dark Act that legally hid gmo info . It is my belief that we will soon find our world in a Pandoras Box .
Every food product should have country of origin too.
I prefer non GMO corn.
I’d like to know.
Cartels smuggle fentanyl and illegals one way and guns and corn the other.
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