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originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: TinySickTears
What area are you in?
Who owns those farms?
Are the owners currently resident?
What current and local market is available for the crops?
originally posted by: RazorV66
a reply to: TinySickTears
I don't know about around there, but here in Michigan I think any corn still in the ground now is used by the farmers, once they harvest it, for feed for animals.
originally posted by: TinySickTears
originally posted by: RazorV66
a reply to: TinySickTears
I don't know about around there, but here in Michigan I think any corn still in the ground now is used by the farmers, once they harvest it, for feed for animals.
that was the only thing i could come up with. an animal feed but i know jack # about farming so it kind of made sense and kind of didnt.
my wife said the beans are soy but i dont know. definitely not green beans.
they use soy beans for animal feed?
my other thought was some sort of soy based product for the beans but it still does not make sense in my stupid head to let the crops die
Grain crops like corn, soybeans, wheat, barley, sorghum and others are harvested when ripened and for those plants, ripening means they have dried down and their green tissue has turned brown. Since these crops have a long storage life, they must be low in moisture in order to be held in large grain bins without going moldy. They have to be dry in order to have any shelf life for future use in a food or feed product.
all the crops of the beans and corn around here have died. i pass several of them every day and they definitely were not harvested.
originally posted by: underwerks
a reply to: TinySickTears
They're not dead, they're drying.
Grain crops like corn, soybeans, wheat, barley, sorghum and others are harvested when ripened and for those plants, ripening means they have dried down and their green tissue has turned brown. Since these crops have a long storage life, they must be low in moisture in order to be held in large grain bins without going moldy. They have to be dry in order to have any shelf life for future use in a food or feed product.
Link
What you're probably seeing is dent corn, which is used for fuel and livestock and plastics, etc. Sweet corn is harvested sooner if I remember correctly.
Farm Program Pays $1.3 Billion to People Who Don't Farm
ven though Donald R. Matthews put his sprawling new residence in the heart of rice country, he is no farmer. He is a 67-year-old asphalt contractor who wanted to build a dream house for his wife of 40 years.
Yet under a federal agriculture program approved by Congress, his 18-acre suburban lot receives about $1,300 in annual "direct payments," because years ago the land was used to grow rice.
Matthews is not alone. Nationwide, the federal government has paid at least $1.3 billion in subsidies for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all, according to an analysis of government records by The Washington Post.
originally posted by: TinySickTears
a reply to: loam
no. nothing at all like that
not growing # is not at all the same as growing # and letting it die
The 2016 ReFED (Rethink Food Waste through Economics and Data) report estimates that 20.2 billion pounds of produce never reaches the supply chain.
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From the growers’ perspective, there comes a point in the season when it is no longer economically feasible to harvest the crop. Vegetable crops are harvested from one to a few times, depending on the crop. As the season progresses, the price drops dramatically. At the same time, the plants age, harvest traffic can damage the plants, disease can set in, and it becomes harder to find marketable quality. Harvest costs like labor, sorting, packing, and packaging stay the same or start to increase. When the economics dictate, the grower calls off the harvest, regardless of what’s left.