I'd be more grateful if they didn't lobby for continued subsidies, particularly for sugar and ethanol.
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That would be like failing to reduce taxes paid through allowable deductions and loopholes. So long as there is a system of subsidies/taxes intended to control behavior players will jockey for position and advantage. They must.
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My grandfather was a dairy and crop farmer in his younger days, and was in his market garden when the Grim Reaper made his slow final harvest.
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Yup! Shout out to the farmers who’ve implemented best management practices on their own w/o reg. requirement bc they know the benefit reducing sediments, pesticides, and herbicides to their local watersheds.
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That's a tiny cohort. The bigger, better and more admirable cohort focuses on good business practices that reduce costs. Wasted pest/herbicides are money down the drain. Tillage and erosion are money down the drain. Regenerative methods are profitable.
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Love farmers. The salt of the earth. Hardest job on earth.
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Grateful for the meat they produce?
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Honest, hard working salt-of-the-earth people.
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