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2013 will be a banner year for farm profits, thanks to $15 BILLION US 2012 taxpayer crop insurance payout

2013 will be a banner year for farm profits, thanks to $15 BILLION US 2012 taxpayer crop insurance payout | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it
If the weather in the U.S. were normal relative to the past, 2013 would be the most profitable year since 1973, says the USDA.

... And the first thing those farmers will do is repay the USDA for its crop insurance outlays in 2012, I assume. After all, it was God who made a farmer, not the USDA.... http://grist.org/news/2013-will-be-a-banner-year-for-farm-profits-according-to-analysis-that-ignores-the-drought/

 

CORN ETHANOL:  BAD FOR FARMERS, CONSUMERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT - FARM SUBSIDIES http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3997271259/corn-ethanol-bad-for-farmers-consumers-and-the-environment-farm-subsidies

 

A CONFLICT HERE:

U.S. farmers may stop planting GMOs after horrific crop yields
http://peakoil.com/enviroment/u-s-farmers-may-stop-planting-gmos-after-horrific-crop-yields

 

Feb 20, 2013:
King Corn Mowed Down 2 Million Acres of Grassland in 5 Years Flat | Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/02/king-corn-gobbles-climate-stabilizing-grassland-midwest

 

 

 

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CEREAL CRIMES: Farmers Talk Genetically Modified Crops - VIDEO

CEREAL CRIMES: Farmers Talk Genetically Modified Crops - VIDEO | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it

Michael Hart, a conventional livestock family farmer, has been farming in Cornwall for nearly thirty years and has actively campaigned on behalf of family farmers for over fifteen years, travelling extensively in Europe, India, Canada and the USA.

In this short documentary he investigates the reality of farming genetically modified crops in the USA ten years after their introduction. He travels across the US interviewing farmers and other specialists about their experiences of growing GM.

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