TEDx Talks: Pushing Boundaries in Agriculture

[AgrivilleAdmin]

[tweety]

Wouldn't it be great if there was actually more demand then supply for a change? Farmers are stupid beyond words. Let's let the people who matter when it comes to farm profitability get a little hungry for once.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Thanks for posting. This needs to be force fed to a much broader audience. Please share.

[farmaholic]

Wouldn't it be great if there was actually more demand then supply for a change? Farmers are stupid beyond words. Let's let the people who matter when it comes to farm profitability get a little hungry for once.

.....and while we're at, let those supplying the over-priced goods and services and the plain parasites of little value feeding off our bottom line get financially hungry as well!

Unless that's what you meant.

Or is it also the people who can actually afford to pay but are only spending a small portion of their disposable income on food.

[tweety]

We can already easily feed 9 billion people. Production has never or will ever be the problem.

Is farming a business or not? If we have social responsibility to feed the world, turn it into a social program.

Fine, ban GMO, herbicides, tractors, i really don't care. Let me grow 10% of what i'm growing for 100 times the price then. The ONLY people affected are the crop protection companies. And this tag line of how can we feed 9 billion is just a smoke screen to keep those companies thriving.

Agriculture produces 2700 calories per person on the entire planet. Plenty of food easily for everyone.

[the big wheel]

Problem here is we have no general plan.
We have no leaders with a long term vision.
We have to decide do we keep funding for example pulse groups to develop higher yielding varieties when we haven't secured trade deals guaranteeing a level
Price for our product? Seems almost nutty that we had people encouraging all these acres of pulses and put in government money for plants to be built ( government is actually our money) and we have no trade deal with a country that has nearly 1.5 billion people.
All I've heard from these groups is how well the rails have improved??? Really that's not what I see happening. Why do I get told no delivery for sometimes months at a time because no cars? Is that just bullshit or is it true?

[farmaholic]

What,..... you don't like Agri"Spend"?

[tweety]

What,..... you don't like Agri"Spend"?

That! IS! Awesome!

Like x 1,000,000

[the big wheel]

Come on fellas we all
Like to be just like our governments heros spending other people's money to look good but reality really stupid. Hahahaha

Debt debt debt and more debt to give a lower price of peas to the Indian people. Hahahaha outstanding!!!

[Guest]

very interesting , here's another angle . the earth probably can't support 10 billion people . maybe we are all missing the point ? maybe all this bullshit they are spewing is really about starving and killing half the worlds population ? control tge food supply , control the world

[bucket]

What I can't figure out is why the Canadian government can subsidize plane sales but not ag product sales ??????

[the big wheel]

Because the guys with the planes don't have people in the middle representing them to government to design policy.