Driftless SW Wisconsin | BronsonA2150 - 10/8/2025 12:46
I’d rather see more domestic use to significantly reduce need for exports. Better yet, if we had more than 2 main crops to grow and could grow 5 or 6 or even more and could opt to not grow one a year or 2 if economics weren’t great we could. But that wouldn’t be in major processors or input supplier/producers best interests.
I'm currently reading a very interesting book titled "RESTORATION AGRICULTURE" by Mark Shepard. In it he talks about how every society that relies on a few annual crops (annually seeded crops such as corn, beans, wheat, oil seeds etc) has collapsed. Maybe going to growing "5 or 6" as you mention could be a step to the permaculture Mark is demonstrating on his farm.
It seems to many on this board that our current direction of counting on government bailouts to survive with corn and beans is not a sound approach. I'd recommend this book. |
Would you rather get the bail out money or give it to places and programs to increase exports ?
