One of the patriarchs of the Rothchild clan once bragged : “Give me control of a nations money supply & I care not who makes its laws.”
Monsanto, other multinational agribusinesses, and their allies in politcs/ government could now answer back : “Give us control of the food supply & we care not who makes the laws or prints the fiat money.”

This article from the Organization for Competitive Markets shows – from a very personal perspective — what is happening to the farm economy, rural America, our food supply, and, indeed, the foundations of our economy & liberty itself

http://www.competitivemarkets.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=261&Itemid=20

Oswald: It was ours

Monday, 08 September 2008

When I was a boy, everything on the farm belonged to my family.At about the age of 10, Dad taught me how to raise hogs. The sows we grew from Hampshire gilts were ours. So was the alfalfa field where we grew hay and hog pasture. Planted to Vernal (a public variety), it was where piglets played and slept in the warm summer sun. The wheat field we harvested later that summer was planted to Gage, another public variety. We harvested that wheat in July, then sold some for seed and some for grain. Dad saved seed for next year’s crop, and Mother cooked a little into breakfast cereal and even ground some flour. After the wheat harvest, we mowed the stubble and baled the straw. The same pigs that grazed the alfalfa were farrowed and later bedded in our wheat straw as the days grew cooler, and Dad fed the shoats our own corn. Monday, 08 September 2008 When I was a boy, everything on the farm belonged to my family.At about the age of 10, Dad taught me how to raise hogs. The sows we grew from Hampshire gilts were ours. So was the alfalfa field where we grew hay and hog pasture. Planted to Vernal (a public variety), it was where piglets played and slept in the warm summer sun. The wheat field we harvested later that summer was planted to Gage, another public variety. We harvested that wheat in July, then sold some for seed and some for grain. Dad saved seed for next year’s crop, and Mother cooked a little into breakfast cereal and even ground some flour. After the wheat harvest, we mowed the stubble and baled the straw. The same pigs that grazed the alfalfa were farrowed and later bedded in our wheat straw as the days grew cooler, and Dad fed the shoats our own corn. When we fed the hogs, Dad told me about how he used to go to the corn crib and select ears of open pollinated seed corn from the thousands he had there. He told me how he’d sort through them and choose only the very best of what he’d grown. And then he told me about how single cross seed corn had replaced open pollinated varieties that he had planted since he was a boy on his father’s farm, where everything they grew belonged to them. . .   . . . The seed company where I bought my first private soybean variety seed was purchased lock, stock and barrel, by Monsanto. Monsanto was the first commercial seed company to patent, and first to aggressively enforce its rights as a patent holder of living things. Monsanto has actively sued many farmers for seed patent infringement. Given the power of billion-dollar earnings, Monsanto never loses a case. Right or wrong, they can afford to maintain lawsuits in the courts for years. Eventually, farmers who may or may not have done what they were accused of are forced to capitulate or spend the farm to defend themselves. Thanks to higher land costs, petroleum, machinery, chemicals, fertilizer and seed, the cost to grow an acre of soybeans now approaches $500 per acre. The 2008 national average soybean yield is predicted to be 40.5 bushels per acre, or about the same yield I got from the public varieties I planted nearly 40 years ago. At today’s price of about $12 per bushel, an average acre of soybeans is worth $486. As a commercial grower who produces soybeans for what seems like the incredible price of $12 per bushel, I haven’t simply lost the right to plant my own seed. I may also have lost the right to earn a profit

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