Wheat Harvest 2010 Rock

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• Wheat
• Harvest
• 2010
• Rock

[MontanaHighboy]

@lisztrestore And how expensive is crops over there in Hattie? Last year I sold 30,000 bushels of wheat at $12.40, for me, thats pretty high. (Once again not trying to be an ass.) My grandpa says he remembers when he sold a truck load of wheat for .20 cents...

[MontanaHighboy]

@lisztrestore I know what your saying, i'm not trying to start anything, but i'm just wondering how do counties over-seas farm different from us? And how could we farm in a way to save soil? If everyone started till farming again, we'd have the dust bowl all over. Once again not trying to be a smart-ass. And can you please tell me what monoculture farming is?

[lisztrestore]

Food has been the greatest WMD throughout history. If you can’t defeat your opponent man-to-man on the battle field, starve him. If the German troops had anything to eat, we’d all be speaking German. We starved them to death more than anything else. I’m no bleeding heart, cry me a river liberal either. But we have been using War Time farming practices ever since WWII. It’s profitable and keeps us in charge. We don’t need tanks anymore; we have Big Tractors, and ignorance.

[lisztrestore]

We are waging war with Big Tractors and artificial fertilizers to retain our global position, using food as an economic weapon, in this case a weapon of Mass destruction! Farmers in third world nations can't farm anymore, because ‘Uncle Scam’ starved them while making himself fat. Is that why you farm? So others around the world can't feed their children? I doubt it, but that's how it works, and you're taught to think you're feeding the hungry. You're starving the hungry.

[lisztrestore]

MontanaHighboy I appreciate your position but you may not realize the nature of synthetic fertilizers and the damage done by monoculture farming. I'm not blaming you or anyone who actually gets off their ass and goes out and works! What I'm getting at is the way we produce food here in the USA is VERY destructive to the soil and to global economics. Do you realize Hattie can’t afford to grow crops because we sell them so cheap? Look what that has done for them.

[MontanaHighboy]

@lisztrestore And most of our cars, pickups, trucks, tractors, combines, and implements come out of cities. But yes they are making a lot of pollution and then they blame it on the farmer for the climate change...

[MontanaHighboy]

@lisztrestore Farmers put fertilizer in the ground with the seed so they get good yields and as the crop grows it uses up the fertilizer so we don't get sick from it. And yes thats exactly what im saying. My dad farms in Central Montana which is basicly rock haha A guy from Minnesota came over to Montana and i quote he said "How do you guys make a living farming this rocky son of a bitch?" he said they have amazing yields over there...

[lisztrestore]

@MontanaHighboy Millions of acers planted with the same few crops-- Monoculture. It's killing us all. As for the soil in the corn belt, well, are you saying it isn't depleted just because its black? I happen to know what a soil sample would say, and it wouldn't be good. Yes, you are doing a good job with what you've been given but what you were given sucks. I can't think of anything 'cities' export besides crime and pollution, can you? Going hungry would be good for them.

[MontanaHighboy]

@lisztrestore "IT" is the millions of acres we have to harvest to feed the growing population. And about depleted land, have you seen the soil in the Corn Belt? It's blacker than a cup of coffee. AND we cannot farm smaller scale because WE keep multiplying, i have no idea what we are going to do when we run out of land to farm and the cities keep growing. We can't possibly get enough food from over-seas...

[lisztrestore]

@MontanaHighboy I live in The USA. The point is 'what is IT'? What are we trying to get done?