Yea Vickie gee for bringing up the fact that only alternative news covers the real news. I love Fox, the blaze and for some very alternate news I enjoy infowars.
The biased news stations want to keep everybody as zombies. Funny is that I only check out the other news stations to see what they are NOT covering and believe me, it is a lot.
Thanks for letting me know that Hannity is having Mr Bundy on tonight. Will have to tune in for that one.
Fox is way ahead of the pack and not afraid to report the truth.
We need to support our farmers. The average age of farmers world wide is 60. The beef supply is the lowest it has been since the 1950's. Farmers need to be able to afford to feed their stock so they can bring affordable food to our tables. Who is going to feed us when the food runs out? Everybody wants to hype up non GMO and organic, when not realizing that this represents about 1% of the farms. I think when folks are starving, serving up some GMO food might look good at that point. It isn't all Frankenstein food... the hype isn't worth the amount of coverage it is getting. Yes folks should be able to know where there food is coming from... however, are folks aware that all kinds of foreign stuff is sneaking into our foods that doesn't get coverage? Or other topics that deserve a bigger concern.... such as the nuclear disaster in Japan...or the radiation in the ocean from this disaster killing fish and the ocean floor being 98% covered with dead fish. The radiation coming to our west coast from that disaster.
Anyway... for the folks that rushed out to buy the new GMO free cheerios? Well, they don't make GMO oats.. so, all they had to do was change up two ingredients, and oooohhhh, jump into the non GMO hype.
I don't think there is anything wrong with planting drought and disease and wind resistant corn. Any farmer that has had a whole years crop get ruined by weather might consider planting some resistant crops.
More concern should be made of the fact that it is getting more and more difficult for farmers to hang on and grow food for profit. Folks should be more concerned with having food to eat.
Beef is skyrocketing right now. A bull calf a few years ago sent to auction didn't clear 10$ and didn't cover the cost to truck him to auction. Why? Because folks were sending so much beef to market and selling out because of multiple years of drought. Hmmmm, if you didn't have rain for 2 years straight, would you be tempted to plant a drought resistant corn variety just to hang on? Anyway, that same bull calf today is worth $300. Now, do the math... If a 100 lb calf bought to be raised as a feeder for $300, what is going to be the value of the beef after someone raises and feeds it for a couple of years.. hmmmmm.
Sorry veggie burger folks. I love veggie burgers too.
anyway. gotta run now. We are life long farmers and have been running at below production costs since 2009. hmmmm.
Hope I got you all thinking...
Life on the back porch is good
Oh, and by the way... resistant strains of seed requires LESS chemicals to grow, not more. Farmers aren't out there spraying the heck out of our land. we live on our land. Tilling the land naturally turns under the blights, no tilling the land hyped as better, uses more chemical but has less erosion.. trade offs on everything you do. Thunderstorms put nitrogen into the soil. We spread a little to help things grow.
Oh... and milk is antibiotic free. You are not allowed to ship milk with antibiotics in it. You get in big trouble and will have to buy all the milk mixed with your milk if antibiotics get into the milk system. They test EVERY load of milk. Non organic farmers are allowed to treat a sick cow with antibiotics and they must test the milk and have withdraw times before their milk can be put into production again.. I have a gorgeous cow milking 80 lbs or more per day and we have been throwing out her milk every day because she got sick after calving and we had to treat her for a uterine infection. she is doing great, but 80lbs per day of milk multiplied by 15 days so far of throwing out her milk... it adds up.
I think there are more chemicals coming out of the developments with their lawn treatments than runs off your local farmers field.
Give the farmers a break... they grow the food you eat. even the non meat type. Read about the bad droughts in texas. It is a dust bowl happening in California too, so those of you who enjoy strawberries and fruits and all kinds of stuff should be concerned.
best wishes. Don't tailgate the tractors