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Biotechnology killed the small seed companies and was the root cause of most of the industry consolidation.

Farmers adopted Roundup ready and BT traited seed enmasse because it lowered risk (BT), increased efficiency and lowered costs. One man on a self propelled sprayer could spray and keep clean thousands of acres that before took multiple people on tractors with 8 row cultivators and layby rigs. Spraying went from mixing cocktails of multiple herbicides to just roundup. In addition, BT reduced cotton insecticide use tremendously.

Independent seed companies were forced due to lack of demand for their conventional varieties to do one of two things
1) sell or 2) purchase biotech lines from Monsanto or 3) license the technology and integrate it into their existing lines (expensive). Most chose 2 or 3 at first before deciding the margins were too thin to compete with the giants and closing or selling out.

As far a chemical? For years, in the row crop industry the vast majority of herbicides sold was roundup/glyphosate. A University of Arkansas weed scientist said “The best thing to add to Roundup is more Roundup. Ag chem companies consolidated to survive. If not for Roundup resistant weeds and a surge in fungicide use for plant health, the industry would be even more consolidated today.

A long post to say it sucks, but farmers ultimately did it to themselves due to their desire to increase efficiency and reduce production costs.

I’ve either farmed or worked in row crop Ag the past 25 years and I don’t know any. So mine or your data set is skewed.

Beef does not mean live cattle in this situation.

Bro you win. I’m dying.

Hunting and selling arrowheads if it’s like Arkansas.

Think anyone will apologize to this person?

I just stuck a 110 savage 270 with a 3x9x44 scope (similar to the Mauser shown) under my clothes like people are implying. Stock under the armpit, barrel down my pants. Could I walk? Yes but extremely awkwardly. Walk a half mile through a neighborhood, up a flight of stairs, run across a rooftop and jump down. No fricking way. This story is bullshite

Holy shite! Same thing happened to my grandfather and friends in NE AR in the 70’s.

Guys were waiting for them as they walked into the house where they held their dice game.

If memory servers me right there was a bunch out of Texarkana that pulled these types of jobs on private games all over the south.

Tough shite, the government said no. You gotta lease your land for 10-100 times less or sell it. frick your retirement and family. We need more grain to stack on top of the rest of this shite we’ve overproduced.

Because you are a hunter that has disposable income and the distribution chain knows you will pay almost whatever to feed deer. Dry Corn is $4 per bushel (56lbs) at the Port of Houston today.

What is “Big Ag” and where is their farm? I fear you have been misinformed.