Farmers Know Best
Justin Moor
He had hard work caked on his overalls
Sweat on his neck, chaw in his jaw
When a stranger pulled up and met him outside his barnSaid, “Sir, I don’t know if you ever would
But I build houses and neighborhoods
And I was wondering if you’d ever want to sell your farm?”
Have you been paying attention to farmers?
You should. They are the most “grounded” of all people.
Farmers are under attack: from rules proclaimed by zealots to reduce greenhouse gases – including methane!
In 2021, the US, EU, Indonesia, Canada, Brazil, UK and many others signed the “Global Methane Pledge” promising to cut their methane emissions by 30% over 2020-30.
Did you know: From the Arctic to the tropics, wetlands encompass around 6% of the planet’s surface. These waterlogged soils are the planet’s largest natural source of methane – a potent greenhouse gas that plays a key role in global temperature rise. As climate change raises global temperatures and disrupts rainfall patterns, wetlands,” the world’s largest natural source of methane emissions are releasing methane into the atmosphere more rapidly – a phenomenon known as the “wetland methane feedback.”
Hmm. Does that mean we should get rid of wetlands?
Bill Gates and the WEF with their 100 Million Farmers are driving a global movement to accelerate the adoption of regenerative agriculture and climate adaptation practices at the farm level. They are making “suggestions” to reduce methane in farming.
Well, they should know. After all they do fly over farm country to and from Davos.
Bill Gates, self-appointed medical doctor (Covid) and now veterinarian extraordinaire, is so worried about methane, he wants to reduce methane by plugging up the cows! After all, according to ESG(Environmental. Social and Governance) “[w]hen it comes to climate change, cows are the new coal.”
There is a company called Rumin8, which develops feed supplements that reduce methane emissions produced by cows through their digestive processes, including burping and flatulence.
Rumin8 made headlines in 2023 after raising $12 million in a funding round led by Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
In a 2023 interview with the think tank Lowy Institute, Gates pointed out that there are two paths of solving the emission issue of cows, who “burp and fart methane to an extreme degree.”
One is preventing the passing of gas as if this would be harmless. As someone who knows what happens when the digestive system cannot pass gas, let me tell you, the cow will be in pain-or die. Maybe that is the plan! You do not mess with the digestive system this way.
Bill Gates suggests we can plant more plants to make into fake beef. Great. What will farmers not plant in order to plant fake beef plants?
The following information comes from an article by Nick Estes, an American Lakota community organizer, journalist, and historian at the University of Minnesota. He has cofounded The Red Nation and Red Media.
“Gates has been busy buying farm land. The decision, he said, came from his “investment group.” Cascade Investment, the firm making these acquisitions, is controlled by Gates. And the firm said it’s “very supportive of sustainable farming”. It also is a shareholder in the plant-based protein companies Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods as well as the farming equipment manufacturer John Deere. His firm’s largest farmland acquisition happened in 2017, when it acquired 61 farming properties from a Canadian investment firm to the tune of $500m.
“The principal danger of private farmland owners like Bill Gates is not their professed support of sustainable agriculture often found in philanthropic work – it’s the monopolistic role they play in determining our food systems and land use patterns.”
Have you heard about the Global Coordinating Secretariat of the Food Innovation Hubs?
According to InvestInHolland.com, Food Innovation Hubs are the “flagship initiative of WEF’s [World Economic Forum] Food Action Alliance.” The purpose of the Food Action Alliance, according to the World Economic Forum press release announcing its launch, is to “brin[g] together the international community to tackle an urgent historic challenge: to reshape the way we think, produce, supply and consume food.”(Emphasis added)
When Bill Gates and the WEF get involved – you know you will be the big loser.
You are probably not aware of the protests around the world regarding farming and regulations. Main Stream Media will not tell you.
Farmers in Europe have been on the march.
As Europe seeks to address the threat of climate change, it’s imposing more rules on farmers. They spend a day a week on bureaucracy, answering the demands of European Union and national officials who seek to decide when farmers can sow and reap, and how much fertilizer or manure they can use. Is it climate change, or is it the desire to push out independent farmers so Big Government can better take care of the proletariats?
Politico has also pointed out: “prices paid to farmers fell by more than 10 percent from 2022 to 2023” in 11 EU countries. The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has historically contained a large portion of its budget for agriculture. But these funds have increasingly gone to the larger landowners, though there has been funding for geographic indicator programs.
While some of the most dramatic protests have been in France, similar action has been taking place in a host of countries including Italy, Spain, Romania, Poland, Greece, Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands.
In the Netherlands, the farmers’ revolt began in June 2022, in opposition to the Dutch government’s plan to reduce nitrogen emissions by cutting livestock numbers. This farmers’ revolt led to the creation of a party, the “Farmer-Citizen Movement” (BBB), which made a strong entry into the Senate in the March 2023 elections. Other grievances have been added to the increase in taxes on diesel, notably the growing environmental obligations under the Green Deal of the European Union.
Farming in America is no picnic.
“Nearly 40 percent of U.S. farmland is now owned by non-farmers, who rent it out to agricultural producers. The portion of land that isn’t owned by farmers varies widely regionally; in some areas, almost 80 percent of agricultural land is held by non-operators.” This has pushed up the price of farmland. In 1970, the average acre of American farmland cost about $1,000 (that’s adjusted for inflation). In the subsequent 5 decades, the price has more than tripled, to $3,160 per acre. That means that the median 444-acre farm that would have cost $444,000 in 1970 is now worth $1.4 million. (This hasn’t been helped by the fact that farmland area in the U.S. has fallen by 25 percent since mid-century.) As the value of farmland has skyrocketed, small-scale and beginning farmers have been priced out from purchasing their own land or even affording leases. In the absence of smaller buyers and lessees, the largest, wealthiest operations have been able to hoard land. As things stand, just 13 percent of operations rent or own 75 percent of U.S. farmed cropland.
Secretary Blinken wants you to know that the American government is getting involved in farming by treating soil as “a precious resource.”
Need I say more?
None of this augers well for farmers.
Farming and fishing according to the WEF is ecocide.
I leave you with the wise words of farmers as shared by Justin Moor
He had hard work caked on his overalls
Sweat on his neck, chaw in his jaw
When a stranger pulled up and met him outside his barn
Said, “Sir, I don’t know if you ever would
But I build houses and neighborhoods
And I was wondering if you’d ever want to sell your farm?”
With his old dog barking and running around
He paused for a second, spit on the ground
Then kicked a little gravel, looked down and said
This is my dirt, these are my fields
Where I harvest what I plant
That little pond, I catch bluegill
I built that barn with my two hands
Where I raise my babies, a piece of me
Nah, this ain’t just a piece of land
The money’d be great, but I can’t part ways with a life that works
You can’t put a green bag dollar on what it’s worth
This is my dirt
Great granddaddy bought it for a hundred an acre
He’d just got married when he signed the papers
Him and his brothers framed that old farmhouse
Every fence post here we put in the ground
Ran the barbed wire and pulled the plow
Every last hay bale, we baled it
Yeah, I’d hate to be the first to sell it
This is my dirt, these are my fields
Where I harvest what I plant
That little pond, I catch bluegill
I built that barn with my two hands
Where I raise my babies, a piece of me
Nah, this ain’t just a piece of land
The money’d be great, but I can’t part ways with a life that works
You can’t put a green bag dollar on what it’s worth
This is my dirt
This is where five generations have prayed for rain
They’ll cover me in it when the good Lord calls my name
This is my dirt, these are my fields
Where I harvest what I plant
That little pond, I catch bluegill
I built that barn with my two hands
Where I raise my babies, a piece of me
Nah, this ain’t just a piece of land
The money’d be great, but I can’t part ways with a life that works
You can’t put a green bag dollar on what it’s worth
This is my dirt
Yeah, this is my dirt
Yeah, this is my dirt
Where I harvest what I plant, this is my dirt
Where I raise my babies, this is my dirt
From the Ethics of the Fathers: “Rabbi Tarfon used to say, it is not incumbent upon you to complete the task, but you are not exempt from undertaking it.”
Diane Weber Bederman
