Alberta passes draconian laws abolishing property rights

[chuckChuck]

Crop life is just PR on behalf of chemical and seed industry.

If food production continues on its path of high fossil energy input and the depletion of Phosphorous fertilizers we are in big trouble in the long term.

All the BS about feeding the world with biotechnology is just crap. Good technology will play a role. But hunger isn't caused by a supply issue. There is currently enough food in the world. Apparently we have a big enough land and food surplus to use it to make ethanol and bio-diesel.

The issue is poverty. Try feeding your family on $1 per day. If there was political will we could solve the hunger issue. But poor Africans don't vote in the election of rich countries.

Many of the worlds poorest are small scale farmers who feed themselves. They need good varieties that they can save the seed from without being thrown in jail.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization published a report a few years ago that recommended that farmers in developing countries can increase yields by adopting, sustainable lower input methods and agronomy. Expecting very poor farmers to purchase expensive seeds and technology is foolish.

Small diverse farms with livestock, good crop rotations, and improved agronomy using lower input methods will increase production from where it is now.

Monsanto and company are not interested in small scale poor farmers because they can't make money from them.

[Braveheart]

High winds this week damaged some canola swaths. Some east/west swaths rolled up north/south swaths disloged and spread around.

Airplane and later broadcast canola 2-3 weeks from swathing. Need a miracle.

Spring wheat just getting going with reported yields from 18- 65 bus/ac.

[hobbyfrmr]

Crop life is not saying the whole world, just the world that can afford to grow biotech crops. They don't really care what happens with the production after its grown just as long as their technology is bought, and bought every year.

I agree. Crop life is the fert and chem companies "beeyotch". They are presenting a sad and twisted version of reality for the general public. It deflects away from this fact.

Monsanto and company are not interested in small scale poor farmers because they can't make money from them.

WD9 and Chuck are very smart people.

I have always carried mixed emotions with farming and starving people. My neighbor is a 50,000 acre farmer, he grows the very biggest and very best crops and is a teriffic, highly efficient farmer. He is also a decent person. There are still people starving. This guy, one farm production unit, will grow (my fast and rough math) 1.5 million bushels of oats, 875,000 bushels of canola and 750,000 bushels of wheat. There are still people starving. To fix a political disfunction with agronomics is naive at best. Thank God we do not have to run from bullets.

[tman]

Good post chuck. I get a kick out of the industry when they try to get philosophical about feeding the world. I interpret this as their way of justifying flawed production practices to the public, or to themselves. If we truly wanted to get philosophical and talk about feeding the world which is very socialistic, which is the basis of true Christianity (at least from what I've heard), then we need to change. Changes including crops grown to plant breeding to North Americans NOT shoveling their faces full of food and becoming obese. Of course a lot or most of that food that is making North Americans fat is NOT food. If we actually start growing food on all of our acres instead of pseudo food then we can start talking philosophically.

But of course, that's not where this industry is at.

Now I must get back to help harvest the family's bin busting canola crop. (that was said with tongue in cheek as Adler would say).

[BTOfarmallll]

ASRG yous already a Slave, have been since the year 1913. The US of A technically has been broke since March 9, 1933. There is absolutely no way to pay back all this debt. Why????? Theys ain't print enough money too. The money never has, never will be there in The System. Why??? Money kin only come in existence with attached debt to it (Interest), Theys ain't print the money to pay fer the Interest. Where it supposed to come from then??? Biggest Pyramid Scheme in The History of Man Kind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Burbert]

Maybe ifn all of us Albertie Comedian
farmers, get together and give a loud,
audible snivel and whine, then the
policitcos will listen and witdraw the
draconian law! Yup thats what we should
all due..... Nope sorry to late, genie is
outta the bottle, the rip off of Comedian
farmers continues unabated......... eh
tommiefer. Luv those PC boys/girls don't
ya!

[FarmRanger]

...what happens when governments steer too far
to the left. Power corrupts.