beagle9
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You know, those pristine looking countryside views of corporate America's farm belt's, otherwise that everyone ride's by in awe over, well they don't realize that anywhere close to those poisonous fields lay water shed's that absorb all the poison's that are intended to stop the bug's from eating the huge crop's. And who ends up drinking that rural shallow well crop water ? But the left cries about oil burning tractor's and such, yet cancer has become the number one killer in America. Feeding the world has come at a high price.Do you actually listen to them?
They are the ones wanting to be able to plant on CRP land you dismiss that with the wave of your hand. They are the ones pushing the increased yield, and you think they should not be.
I couple years back I got to know the guy that was at the time the President of the Illinois Wheat Association. We were doing a tour of wheat fields trying to get an feel for the expected yield. He also grew corn and beans and his lifelong goal was to win the Top Corn Yield award for the state for a year. He had come close a few times. It is just judged not on their total crop but on on acre in one of their fields.
High yields are a huge point of pride for them.