@encthenet@darth@RTheren oh this is great to hear, I thought we still had this issue. FreeBSD routers have been avoided for a lot of people because of this
@MichaelTBacon@mekkaokereke@Jonricha check the Criticisms of the 2002 farm bill section on Wikipedia, it sums it up better than I'll regurgitate it here anyway. This is where it went off the rails.
@PJ_Evans@mekkaokereke@Jonricha The coverage rates are pretty substantial. Emergency farm loans don't require crop insurance but they do require it for future years (like your mortgage -- probably built in). I'll have to ask my brother if FSA loans require insurance but I'm pretty sure they do. (He's a loan officer / appraisal guy for this stuff).
Basically, if your farm is a serious operation, you'll be getting loans to grow it. So you'll have insurance. I'm very confident about that.
"Crop insurance today protects more than 90% of America’s planted acres."
@Jonricha@donaldball@mekkaokereke You're right, the incentives are not aligned. Unfortunately for us in America, we have to work within the system we've got. I don't see any kind of revolution coming in my lifetime without a civil war or catastrophic economic collapse.
It seems every major change we've had in America is reactionary.
You know the old trope, "Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”... sad but true
@Jonricha@donaldball@mekkaokereke “Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.” – Paul Harvey
That's a core part of the problem: we don't have the topsoil anymore.
@taatm@mekkaokereke it's disgusting, I have been intentionally avoiding all products with it for years now. Once you start looking it's very eye-opening how many products it's in. 🤮
@donaldball@mekkaokereke@Jonricha we have the technology to begin moving to giant indoor environmentally controlled grow operations. They require far less land than outdoor farming. They require no topsoil. They will not need to constantly consume water. There will be no nutrients flushed out in wastewater. There will be no such thing as "seasons". The crops can grow 24/7 with specific pulsed light cycles so they never shut off their growth. They'll grow even faster with controlled, elevated co2 and increased atmospheric pressure. Entire trees that take years to mature and fruit can be done in months.
Doing this removes the variable of weather destroying your yields.
All of this exists. We just aren't using it. If you want to chat with an expert on it reach out to @SlicerDicer
@MichaelTBacon@mekkaokereke@Jonricha most of the corn grown is not for human consumption. I'll give the farmers growing potatoes, broccoli, and beans a break but the big farms in the Midwest are almost all corn and it is a net negative on society