I would think our biggest obstacle is large corporations trying to wring every dollar out of farmers. John Deere, Archer Midland Daniels, and Monsanto come to mind. Oh looks like Monsanto is part of Bayer now.
That’s a good rule of thumb, but it’s not infallible. In this case, the better question would be why the word “immigrant” is not mentioned even once. The United States has enormous agricultural capacity but we heavily depend on cheap, trapped labor to keep prices low and between cost and working conditions there isn’t an easy alternative.
Poorly thought out USDA cuts are also going to hamper our ability to develop improved crops in the future, as discussed in this article:
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-gene-banks-key-n...
The level of down voting on verifiable information is out of control here.
I would think our biggest obstacle is large corporations trying to wring every dollar out of farmers. John Deere, Archer Midland Daniels, and Monsanto come to mind. Oh looks like Monsanto is part of Bayer now.
Betteridge's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
That’s a good rule of thumb, but it’s not infallible. In this case, the better question would be why the word “immigrant” is not mentioned even once. The United States has enormous agricultural capacity but we heavily depend on cheap, trapped labor to keep prices low and between cost and working conditions there isn’t an easy alternative.