I have worked the consumer forums for some years, actually even way back when it was Fidonet, there was t an official internet yet. I paid my dues.
What we have here are fad chasers.
They want an easy life, but they are guilt driven and want their easy life while doing it ‘right.’
A little secret - you and me and most on here are kinda exactly the same on that, we want the easy button, but we wish we would do better at stuff.....
So, they read on social media this or that is 100% bad, and they say well it’s easy to just not do that, and then my life means something.
A couple months or years later, they hear this or that is good, and the other is bad.
And so they flip flop, going to be a good person and do what I heard on the internet.....
Because it’s easy, but I believe I’m making a real difference in the world.
When I spray herbicides on my corn and soybeans this week, and the grain grows another couple months before setting grain, then another couple months to harvest, then it sits around from November through next October being slowly used to feed hogs or beef or poultry, then the livestock grow a few weeks to many months, gets butchered and cut up and shipped and back to a grocery store.... might be a couple years since I used herbicides on immature crops until it ends up on your plate.
I used a couple ounces to maybe possibly 2 gallons of herbicide per acre, that is 4 thousandths of an oz of herbicide per ear of corn or less. Two years ago.....
Along the way that corn was exposed to fuels, exhaust, plastics, metals, processed with numerous chemicals preservatives, and on and on.
But you are saying the real concern is .004 of an ounce of herbicide that was sprayed long before an ear was even out of the whorl of the corn plant? That is the intelligence we are supposed to follow this year?
The young guys, the millennial that I make fun of for other reasons, are actually quite accepting of science as a group, and are not so worried about all the gmo and herbicide stuff. They have moved on.
They get it again.
So, what group am I supposed to chase after?
In general, people shop with their pocketbook, and unless you have some good location or special soils or nitche or location that suits, the best effort is to chase after the common folk that spend the most and vote with their pocketbook.
Nothing wrong with chasing after a small market that pays better, but it is a very fickle market that jumps in and out of fads, it’s not very stable for your farming career. Glad it works out for some, nothing wrong with it, but certainly not an answer for the masses.
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