Frequently Asked Questions of The Farmer’s Life What crops do you raise? We raise corn, soybeans, popcorn, and wheat. More specifically we grow dent corn, waxy corn, commercial soybeans, soybeans for seed, popcorn, and winter wheat. What is waxy corn? Inevitably when I mention waxy corn I get asked, “What is waxy corn?” […]
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This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto involving an Indiana farmer who allegedly bought commodity seed from an elevator and used that seed to plant another crop. Monsanto argues this act would infringe on its technology use agreement. To me it sounds like Bowman did this knowingly violating the agreement. Personally, […]
You may remember a while back when I wrote a post about biotech sweet corn, and how it could greatly reduce pesticide applications. Thanks to the popularity of that post (which still gets hits almost daily) I was afforded an opportunity by Monsanto to take delivery of a few freshly harvested ears of Seminis® Performance […]
Yesterday I was reviewing my blog statistics and found something interesting. One of the links bringing people in to my Occupy the Food Supply post was coming from NPR’s “Judge Dismisses Organic Farmers’ Case Against Monsanto“. I could not remember commenting on an NPR post or even reading one lately. As it turns out someone left […]
Today is the day. The Occupy movement is going to occupy our food supply. According to the occupiers and Farm Aid president Willie Nelson large corporations have too much control over our food. I won’t deny that there has been a lot of consolidation in the food and seed markets over the years, but that […]
I want to repost these thoughts I had on a post by Dairy Carrie from her blog. It’s interesting that in the United States when the vast majority of us have access to food pretty readily that we seem to complain about it a lot. Many parts of the world have a hard time getting by […]