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Fusarium in Wheat
News Reporter Farmers that have wheat planted after a corn crop, they’re going to want to protect themselves from diseases like Fusarium. Kyle Strachila is a crop protection field sales representative for Bayer Crop Sciences. He says customers are proactively looking to Prosaro® fungicide, one of their products to manage this disease.
Strachila… “I ve heard of guys in the last couple of years, starting to use Prosaro® as their preventative measures on almost every irrigated acre that they advise for, because the Fusarium disease is really prevalent in fields after a corn crop. So if a wheat crop is being grown after a corn crop, the chances are pretty high that Fusarium is present in the field, and a head scab outbreak in the field can completely decimate a crop.
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Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself, an appetite that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, presiding judge in the Gates/Microsoft antitrust-fraud case
For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible.
The Coming of Neo-Feud.
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Thomas Jefferson believed that the success of America’s exemplary struggle to supplant the yoke of European feudalism with a noble experiment in self-governance depended on the perpetual control of the nation’s land base by tens of thousands of independent farmers, each with a stake in our democracy.
Folded arms and furrowed brows
among frustrated farmers greeted former Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) at a National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) meeting in the mid-2010s. Inglis was then a rarity among Republican legislators. He made his case for market-based solutions to mitigate the impact of human-influenced climate change. On that day, though, not many farmers wanted to hear it. “You could just feel the tension in the room, the feeling that this guy was full of it,” recalls Brandon Hunnicutt, a Giltner, Nebraska, farmer, who is involved with several NCGA boards. Many farmers skeptically view the concept of climate change. This skepticism, though, may be as much rooted in fear of government control as distrust in climate science, says Ben Riensche, a Jesup, Iowa, farmer.