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MuseRider

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4. I know the few farmers left around here
Wed Feb 24, 2021, 07:44 PM
Feb 2021

that are not owned by the big companies still have to plant their company seeds and they are not happy about it. I would bet that many of them would love your suggestions. They are there because they love their farms that have been in their families but no longer look like that or run like that and they can only do it by keeping a full time job on top of working the farm. In the almost 30 years I have been out here the changes are stunning.

**I find myself completely creeped out driving around here. Corn is all the same height and matures exactly at the same time, same with soy beans and I assume wheat but I do not see much of that around my area anymore. Signs for the corporate seed companies occupy ever acre planted. Now there is more crop dusting than I have ever seen. They fly so low over my farm that I can see the pilots face. I would bet that every single farmer out here would love to control their own farm and do things in a way that worked for years and years and was actually very socialist.

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