Bragging about giving handouts to farmers who poison, with herbicides and pesticides, the food products we all consume is nauseating.
Then there is the corn they produce and sell to the ethanol industry and the government mandated gasoline blends that must contain ethanol that we are forced to buy.
I’m sick and tired of the federal government mismanaging damn near everything!
Depends on where you live, I suppose. Near me, it's currently $4.20. But ultimately, the comparative cost is about the same, since ethanol gets less MPG than unleaded.
I wouldn't blame the farmers for that. We are losing farmers. Many work day jobs, and increasingly large acreage, trying to stay in the farming field that they love. Many are heavily invested in the equipment and infrastructure, and it is a huge risk to make a big change and try not to lose everything in the process. I'm my experience hearing the conversation over switching to regenerative, the problem is the significant personal risk with very high consequence to try something that is not well established in rural areas for an intellectual assurance that it is Good and would work economically. It is reasonable to worry about the viability of the business. I hate the chemical farming model, but I love the good people who farm. I think there is a lot of potential. Regenerative and healthier farming can be a shift that is good for the business, beyond the morality of it.
If she’s so “Farmer First” why has she not fought against PALANTIR taking over agriculture?!! 👿
Isn’t PALANTIR the reason why we have a Trump administration? If we just voted for RFK Jr….
Absolutely no one believes that Rollins or trump-world "has farmer's backs." Farmers certainly don't, as shown by polling over the last year
Unless by "farmers" you mean Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland and Bunge Global
Bragging about giving handouts to farmers who poison, with herbicides and pesticides, the food products we all consume is nauseating.
Then there is the corn they produce and sell to the ethanol industry and the government mandated gasoline blends that must contain ethanol that we are forced to buy.
I’m sick and tired of the federal government mismanaging damn near everything!
Nobody's "forced" to buy ethanol. Unleaded gasoline is still available at gas stations.
Correct, at $5 a gallon.
Depends on where you live, I suppose. Near me, it's currently $4.20. But ultimately, the comparative cost is about the same, since ethanol gets less MPG than unleaded.
I wouldn't blame the farmers for that. We are losing farmers. Many work day jobs, and increasingly large acreage, trying to stay in the farming field that they love. Many are heavily invested in the equipment and infrastructure, and it is a huge risk to make a big change and try not to lose everything in the process. I'm my experience hearing the conversation over switching to regenerative, the problem is the significant personal risk with very high consequence to try something that is not well established in rural areas for an intellectual assurance that it is Good and would work economically. It is reasonable to worry about the viability of the business. I hate the chemical farming model, but I love the good people who farm. I think there is a lot of potential. Regenerative and healthier farming can be a shift that is good for the business, beyond the morality of it.
It makes me feel the people hard working out doors. And others think food comes from a Star Trek Replication.