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Loftegen 2 wrote:

Around where I live, a farmer who plants anything but corn or soy beans is an oddity. And I agree on the over-fertilization/herbicide/pesticide thing. I'm not clear on the details, but I've heard that a lot of farmers are kind of in a bind: to get a loan to plant a crop, they have to plant corn or beans. It's not all bad news though: conservation tillage is widely practiced, and manure as fertilizer is readily available from confinement operations. And there's the CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) that pays farmers to take especially sensitive areas out of production more or less permanently. And I have an idea that herbicides at least will be replaced by robotic weed pullers at some point.

I agree and then the flip side is that if you dont you're paying out all profits for health care, employees, farmers market fees, etc. at least in my neck of the woods.