if everyone quit spraying where would the price o

There'd be some hungry folks around.....

Have to consider that yields would also decrease as weeds took over in fields removing nutrients so a 200 b/a corn may only develop 140, a 140 b/a less than 100, for soy may be back to the days of 18-20 b/a, hardly worth planting or harvesting in some conditions. So essentially prices would have to double just to pay the fuel costs and machine maintenance, would be hit with dock at the elevators for infiltrated weed seeds where loss would have to be made up for.

City folks would be hard pressed to find enough money to eat.

Edited by DMiller - 29 Mar 2019 at 6:31am

Not that IS Funny cabinhollow!! Follows with that too fat to be smart failed Governor of Ga MS. Abrams that stated that very sentence!! If she stopped pushing food in that pie hole and get off her fat tard butt she might find there is another life out there she has never imagined.

Just curious if you mean hybrid or GMO?  Not that it matters to the point really, but very different things.

It will solve overpopulation.

Mostly dark meat out there.

there would be no more certified weed free hay for these horse people to feed there horse before or when they are in designated wilderness areas so the horses would have to be kicked off those areas  i bet there are a lot more trickle down affects 

There wouldn't be a 2billion bushel extra corn carry over like there is this year.

With hemp coming into play it will kill all the weeds, provide fiber, protein and oil.
Leave the ground clean for next year's  crop.
Ya know Hitler didn't want any chemicals on the motherland.
 Planted hemp in the center of the field one year and used it for a border around the other crop the next year.
 At the same time America started growing it again for the war effort,
even though it had been taxed into the ground years earlier,
 they had to make it legal again because no crop could replace it.

Permaculture and regenerative farming would take a big chunk of chemfarming's place.

To certain point, it is a conversation worth having. There is no disagreement that in the last 20-30 years the basic 'feedstuffs' of what humans ingest has changed drastic than in 200-300 years previous. Our genetics have so altered in the corn, wheat, soybeans, etc., many millions of people are having increased challenges digesting what is eaten. Ever wonder when a 'bug resistent(sp) hybrid' is developed what that really means? That means the insect cant digest that plant because the genetics of that plant have been altered, dontcha think a few humans may then have the same issue? Increased yields are all well and good, but we then spend billions on herbicides, insecticides, increased healthcare for people, just so he have a bit more basic boring food to eat to save the farmer from getting on that cultivator and cultivating 2-3 times per year?

The basic point I am trying to make is, our food is changing faster than the human body can adapt too.

ac fleet, that may be a bit extreme, what was grown on the land 50 yr ago? 25 yr ago? I am not advocating using nothing. I do question what is being done to our health by some (not all) 'advancements'.

For the first time you will see 24 and 30 row cultivators but it will be easier for the next generation with auto steer.🙄

30" cultivators have been around as long as there have been 30" corn planters

wide wrote: ...and new solar, robot weeders, ha.  No one addressed the point I made about this years surplus,  or the fact we grow more than we can sell,  cheaper than it cost to grow it if you had to pay yourself a fair wage. There are good ways to grow food without chemicals. https://mainstreetproject.org/ Chickens kill bugs and weeds,  trees don't need to be planted every year.

I always wonder where this 2 billion bushels is. Every year "they" (USDA) tells us we have huge carryover. If we have say a 1 or 2 billion bushel carryover per year for the last 10 years-then shouldn't we have 10 to 20 billion bushels stored somewhere? I wonder where that is or am I looking at this all wrong?

ac fleet wrote: The carryover is only on paper in govt. officials desk.  Grain can't be stored for 10 years without going bad. ---The guys down the road here can't even store his for one season without problems! ---- The so called carryover is a govt. tactic to keep the grain prices low.

Are you saying we're being duped?

how much less farm land will there be in five years  and how  many more people ?  can yeilds really go down ?