Look I'm not into the argument over crop safety. What I'm trying to point out is that wasting time and energy trying to convince what very few on here hasn't changed one mind in recent history. You guys need to get this message out to the masses. You are not doing a very good job at that while the anti GMO anti animal crowd has. I'm convinced that most of the stuff on the cage free/free range/grass fed stuff with animals comes from PETA. I think they are smart enough to understand that they are not going to break the masses of eating meat but they can force prices higher reducing demand. Same with the anti GMO crowd. I think environmentalist are behind that. All the chemicals scare them. Using the news media both have done a great job of informing the masses of things they want to masses to know. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. They are getting the message out. The farmer is not.
And even at 90 bushels per acre at the stated 3.50 and 8.50 prices? The GMO crop at 190 bushels per acre? Do the math The organic guy will still make 100 bucks more per acre gross. Now some claim that it cost about 390 bucks an acre to plant GMO corn. Plus fuel and equipment depreciation. Cost the organic guy about 145 per acre including buying organic chicken litter to fertilize with. So he's going to gross 100 more per acre. Then spend about 245 less per acre to plant. Now he's 345 per acre better off. So the only thing left to figure out is fuel and depreciation. I really doubt the organic farmer is going to spend 345 more per acre on fuel and depreciation.
Right now about 1.2 million acres of farm land in the US goes into gas tanks per year. 1.2 million acres that could be used to feed the masses. Plus over 18 million acres of US farm land is idle just this year. At 90 BPH? 1.2 million plus 18 million X 90 comes out close to 2 billion that BILLION with a B bushels of corn that could be used to feed the masses.
That's what conventional growers would like you to believe. But there are hundreds of millions of acres of farm able land world wide that's either never been farmed or just sitting idle. Plus how many more acres growing corn and beans destine for the gas tank what could raise something else.
This is what the "ignorant" people rrlund ridicules all the time see. The conventional farmer making claims about how the world will starve while raising non-edible beans and corn to send to bio fuel plants. So average Joe consumer sees what they consider a lie. Strike one! Then they see stuff in the news about the plight of the farmer. And in that story they see a nice house, 60,000 buck truck and a 250,000 tractor. And a guy who owns 500-1000 acres or more. Strike 2. Then they are told that they get healthier food from better farming practices and then see the conventional farmer calling them ignorant or fools (you can bet the organic and sustainable farmers are making sure they know what guys like rrlund are saying). The worst thing in the world short of murder you can do to a potential customer is have them find out that you think they are dumb. Not only will they do everything in their power to keep you from getting their money they will try to convince other consumers to do the same. So foul ball.
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