Ag Nightmare Could Result In "Corn Mountain" As Prices Collapse

So, stop eating tacos.

Hopefully they are not using glyphosate. It sounds like the mixture of seeds is such a variety that insects have a hard time destroying the crops.

I once planted a garden this way using permaculture techniques. The garden was the most chaotic but bountiful garden I ever had. The problem was that my wife hated it.

She did not know how or where to harvest the fruits and vegetables. You would locate a squash here and a cucumber over there. Beans were really hard to find.

To the lay person the garden looked like a pile of weeds but all the leaves were to a vegetable or fruit. Insects had no idea what they were looking at since the leaves were so intermixed from different vegetables. There we absolutely no weeds. All the weeds were shaded out by the quantity of fruits and vegetables.

I've come across a treasure trove of using the no-till method effectively. This guy Gabe Brown has been using the no-till without pesticides, without GMO's, without chemical fertilizers, etc.

Here's a link to a video series + Q&A with this guy. I'd say that farmers should utilize his techniques in order to become more sustainable with farming practices:

A lot of the corn grown is so GMO that it is inedible.
They use it for BIO-diesel & an HFCS - High Fructose Corn Syrup (a very cheap sweetener).

And not only do they heavily spray it but they put pesticides right IN the corn. BT Corn. The BT Toxin is bred into the corn. Ever get a belly ache after eating corn chips or anything else made with corn?

Check out the videos I posted from Mark Shepard. He plants food forests in Wisconsin and uses animals to work the land for him.

ANTICHRIST WINNING!

MAGA!

that's what happens when you trust a liar.

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Sounds like Mark Shepard is in the same camp...restorative farming, using cover crops to pull carbon from the atmosphere and depositing it into the soil, crimping down cover crops as essentially a "mulch", reducing erosion and looking at bugs & "weeds" as a beneficial ecosystem instead of as pests. Gabe Brown mentioned that they're looking at creating a food label for restoration farmed, and he's all for it as long as they add nutrient density as a gauge or by setting requirements for nutrient densities. Also the idea of monocropping being detrimential, and looking at plant diversity as a good thing.

In early January, President Trump told his followers at a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, that the "economy is booming," and farmers should "go buy larger tractors" ahead of the trade deal that was signed mid-month. Farmers bought those tractors, extra seed, and fertilizer, gearing up for the "greatest year ever," as trade with China was supposed to ramp up.

In a cruel twist for farmers, a diplomatic spat between Washington DC and Beijing has unfolded in recent weeks as the US-China trade deal is at risk of falling apart. Beijing wants the Trump administration to renegotiate the deal due to the external demand for agricultural products that have collapsed from the pandemic. President Trump has responded by saying there's no appetite for negotiations as it now appears China will have trouble upholding its end of purchase agreements.

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Reuters said corn farmers are set to face steep losses this year as spot prices tumble to the lowest in a decade, and the planting season is the second-largest since the Great Depression.

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In early January, President Trump told his followers at a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, that the "economy is booming," and farmers should "go buy larger tractors" ahead of the trade deal that was signed mid-month. Farmers bought those tractors, extra seed, and fertilizer, gearing up for the "greatest year ever," as trade with China was supposed to ramp up.

In a cruel twist for farmers, a diplomatic spat between Washington DC and Beijing has unfolded in recent weeks as the US-China trade deal is at risk of falling apart. Beijing wants the Trump administration to renegotiate the deal due to the external demand for agricultural products that have collapsed from the pandemic. President Trump has responded by saying there's no appetite for negotiations as it now appears China will have trouble upholding its end of purchase agreements.

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Reuters said corn farmers are set to face steep losses this year as spot prices tumble to the lowest in a decade, and the planting season is the second-largest since the Great Depression.

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They didnt have corn in Egypt brainchild.

every word trump says is to trick people. every statement is a lie. even if it's true it' told as part of a larger deception

he wanted them to buy new tractors because the new tractors can be turned off remotely, have the latest software design.

Israel could starve you all to death by pressing a button. it is a fact. those tractors and farm machinery simply will not work if the software doesn't work. it's like your car, no computer there's no way you can make your car run

I thought we made Ethanol from excess corn

So, stop eating tacos.

every word trump says is to trick people. every statement is a lie. even if it's true it' told as part of a larger deception

he wanted them to buy new tractors because the new tractors can be turned off remotely, have the latest software design.

Israel could starve you all to death by pressing a button. it is a fact. those tractors and farm machinery simply will not work if the software doesn't work. it's like your car, no computer there's no way you can make your car run

Here is a good article on Chaos Farming. Instead of a normal cover crop the farmers are planting a huge variety of vegetables using the no-till method. What ever grows, grows and then the farmers give it a way or sell very inexpensively. The customers have to go into all the chaos and harvest their own produce from the farmer.

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There is no such thing as a "corn farmer". If all you produce is a single crop, you are an industrial agriculture operations manager. They strip the soil of tilth, poison it with herbicides and insecticides and then think that they can get away with using a meaningful word like "farming" to describe what they do?

Fuck. No.

Sounds like Mark Shepard is in the same camp...restorative farming, using cover crops to pull carbon from the atmosphere and depositing it into the soil, crimping down cover crops as essentially a "mulch", reducing erosion and looking at bugs & "weeds" as a beneficial ecosystem instead of as pests. Gabe Brown mentioned that they're looking at creating a food label for restoration farmed, and he's all for it as long as they add nutrient density as a gauge or by setting requirements for nutrient densities. Also the idea of monocropping being detrimential, and looking at plant diversity as a good thing.

That is a wonderful idea.

You can't throw a bunch of mixed vegetable seeds on an untilled field and expect them to magically grow.

The fucking "chaos garden" pictured is a sunflower field.

So many of you get your "knowledge" from idiot sources.

Check out the videos I posted from Mark Shepard. He plants food forests in Wisconsin and uses animals to work the land for him.

You can't throw a bunch of mixed vegetable seeds on an untilled field and expect them to magically grow.

The fucking "chaos garden" pictured is a sunflower field.

So many of you get your "knowledge" from idiot sources.

You can't throw a bunch of mixed vegetable seeds on an untilled field and expect them to magically grow.

The fucking "chaos garden" pictured is a sunflower field.

So many of you get your "knowledge" from idiot sources.

Use seed bombs. They do grow. I bet even if you throw seeds directly on the soil some would grow. You could also walk over the seeds with cleats the help plant them if your soil is loose and has good humus.

I use a johnny apple seed stick to plant. It is as easy as walking and planting seeds.

I have planted a chaos garden for many years and they do work but are harder to harvest.

Also the chaos garden in the picture has a lot of different fruits and vegtables. Look in the ladies hands those are not sunflowers although there are a lot of sunflowers intermixed in the garden.


Why be such a Debbie downer. Seeds are cheap. You are not going to lose much money or time for a small garden using no-till and the chaos method.