USA | JRCS Farms - 11/6/2025 12:34
In other words, the exact scenario I said is pretty much the only option to avoid big ag… so why be a contrarian in your reply to me?
Anyway, how are you avoiding big ag for fertilizer, chemicals, crop protection products, marketing, equipment, storage, parts, etc? Because public soybeans and select conventional corn varieties isn’t exactly rattling big ag’s cage…
Majority of farmers have caused the current situation by continuing to over pay for things. I have chosen not to play that game.
Small seed companies can sell the seed corn for less than the big boys for one simple reason. Too much wasteful fat in the big boy seed companies costs. If you want to bloat your COP by buying over priced seed corn that is your business, I choose to keep the money in my account vs wasting it and putting it in theirs.
Costs around $50 bag to raise and get seed corn in the bag. Royalty on NGMO corn is around $40 bag. A lot of corporate fat cost built into $250-$350 bag seed corn.
Bloated machinery cost is self inflicted by those who don't know how to push a pencil. When we were running one combine with 8 row head, 1100 bu grain cart pulled with a 4WD tractor in the field this fall, all of it could be bought for around $100,000. Would like to see the numbers how harvesting corn with a combine , corn head , grain cart and tractor that cot $500,000 to $ 1 million will pencil out.
Only name brand chemical I buy is something with Zidua in it, that will stop when Gen Zidua shows up.
As far as parts buy cheaper after market parts when possible or can knock a piece of equipment in the head if the new part is too cost prohibitive.
When it comes to fertilizer best way to help mitigate the cost is to have on farm NH3, Dry, and liquid storage.
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Avoiding “Big Ag” - or why do you support it?
