- End all current ag subsidies. Monocrop subsidies have been a major cause of all our warped food incentives and terrible health.
- End the legality of concentrated feed lots for livestock and fowl.
- Incentivize truly integrated, regenerative, small scale farming on a massive scale. This means redirecting ag subsidy funds to regenerative farming only, on a temporary basis, until regen farming is on its feet after being destroyed by decades of corrupt government mal-incentives.
- Take our greatest examples of regenerative farming like Joel Salatin of www.polydacefarm
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I agree that moving away from monocrop subsidies is important for promoting healthier and more sustainable farming, but doing away with all subsidies at once could cause serious financial issues for many farmers. A better approach might be to gradually phase out monocrop subsidies while offering support and training for farmers to transition to regenerative practices. This would allow farmers to adapt over time without risking the collapse of operations that currently rely on monocropping, ensuring a smoother and more sustainable shift for the entire agricultural industry.
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@MrsFarmerJenkins Can you explain how farming without the need to buy GMO seeds, thousands of pounds of fertilize and poisonous chemicals every season, expensive equipment to spray the poison, farmers needing loans/grants yearly to cover the costs of their chemical farm factories, and insane costs of negative health effects from these practices could possibly be a “serious financial issue”? The current ownership of farmland in the US being mostly owned by corporations, foreign governments, Bill Gates and big ag speaks volumes about the real financial cost of the insane practice of the current day GMO crop industry!
Respectfully, it is the opposite! The only ones to lose with ending the toxic chemical farming industry would be the banks, big ag and corporations! The small REAL farmers have already lost everything! You want to talk about financial costs? Ask the organic farmers how hard it is to pay for a label that states their product is ORGANIC REAL food. The labels and certifications are crazy expensive! Furthermore, these terrible practices are making it almost impossible to even grow real organic food due to contamination from drift! Do the real farmers matter? Who are we trying to protect?
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Thank you for sharing your perspective. I completely understand the frustrations surrounding the costs of organic certification and the challenges of dealing with contamination from drift. As a 14th-generation farmer (my ancestor is Durst Aebi from Lancaster, PA), my family has farmed for centuries. We’ve faced many challenges, and while we currently rely on certain conventional practices, we also have adopted many new land management practices, but we can’t rely on those alone to get us through the year in the black on our ledger at this point in time without assistance. I agree that more support for small, organic farmers would benefit the entire agricultural community. Finding a balanced solution is crucial.
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GMO seeds do not regenerate and that is a very risky issue. We only plant heirloom or organics because we can harvest the seeds for the following season. GMO plants cannot reproduce, so the companies that have created them, control quantities, costs, etc. for all future food production.
Using eugenics as the basis for GMO, they basically try to engineer out what they consider bad traits and vulnerability to diseases, but have destroyed the flavor and created potential, permanent risks to childrens’ health and world food supply.
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Regenerative farming is what needs to take the place of mono crop farming. GMOs, glysophate and other chemicals have depleted our once nutrient dense soils. Also, Regenerative farming would naturally solve the carbon issue as well. How do we transition from this current farming practice to Regenerative farms is the question?? As a farm wife of a 4th generation farmer, I’ve seen firsthand the struggles and stress that just day to day operations brings. I’ve had the tough conversations with him about the damages this conventional way of farming has done and how we have to look into Regenerative farming for the future of our kids and grandkids.
We receive several solar farm project letters a week wanting us to lease our ground for solar. The money offers contunue to climb and even bonuses for signing up by certain dates. I keep telling my husband not to sign anything!
We also have Carbon capture companies wanting to capture the carbon from our local power plant and pipe it out over our ground directly over an aquifer. Not a smart idea in my opinion.
We can naturally capture carbon by changing our farming methods. But of course, politicians and other big CEOS wouldn’t be able to make money. Corruption has to end!!
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Thank you so much for sharing! I can’t imagine the challenges and hardships you are facing! I too come from generations of farmers. It makes so sad to see what has happened! I am so happy to hear you are standing up for what you feel is right! My heart literally hurts to hear stories like yours! You are 100% correct! The answer is more REAL farmers and healthy soil!
We used Back to Eden (no till) gardening with great results! Sadly, this year the field behind our property was leased by a 19 year kid. He planted GMO corn, sprayed with his chemicals and killed all our 1 acre garden and 1/2 orchard! And just like that, everything my family of four had been working on for 7 years was destroyed by a kid who knew nothing about the dangers of the toxins he was allowed to use! What were we to do? Go to the agency that allows it and report him? The result of that would be nothing beneficial for us or the real farmers! This system is so corrupt!
I pray everything works out for you and your sweet family! Thank you so much for your reply!
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I can’t imagine how frustrating that was to have worked so hard on your beautiful garden and orchard to have it ruined by the neighbor’s conventional farm. This is why we have to make incentives for all farmers to rethink and retrain in regenerative practices. Because everyone has to be on the same page and ban the chemicals otherwise it will kill those farms and gardens of those who are changing for the good.
Thank you for your kind words! God bless you!
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The federal government spends more than $30 billion a year on subsidies for farm businesses and agriculture of which most goes to farm foods that lead to our chronic disease epidemics. Keep subsidies for farmers who farm fruits and vegetables which will lead to lower costs and behavior of consumption for these types of healthy foods will increase and consumption of foods that hurt our health will decrease.