Deere has a cult following with some farmers.
Many farmers are also the definition of ignorant. They live in remote area with limited contact outside of their social group.
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You also had the work/life experience by then to be better able to filter out pertinent information from the material.
Most college textbooks are written in an overly complex manner and require some skill to extract and process the information from them.
So right out of highschool you could have read the textbooks but gotten very little out of them.
Those numbers are from the census of agriculture.
The census of agriculture numbers are also not anywhere close to reliable anymore. As consolidation occurs, reporting on the ag census is rapidly declining. NASS does not enforce the fines, and larger operations refuse to report.
Without the reporting, NASS does not have enough data to make accurate estimates. When I was a statistician the error rates I saw were upward of 20-50% on every number. It's only gotten worse since then.
The summary of that investment portfolio is accurate.
The farmland landscape (no pun intended!) is changing drastically. Ownership patterns are beginning to change. A sector once dominated by owner-operated farms is now undergoing rapid consolidation as billionaires, institutional investors and foreign players look to scale their farmland portfolios.
It's an ongoing trend. Investment companies and large farmers are buying up huge tracts of land at stupid high prices. They then lease-back the ground to the local farmers. Most smaller farmers can not afford to buy the ground because of the inflated land sale value. So they are forced to sign lease agreements and pay rent.
Here's a nice introduction from a investment company.
https://bravantefarmcapital.com/education/who-owns-farmland/
They didn't even mention potentially the largest land owner , the Mormon Church (AgReserves). Who have been quietly purchasing millions of acres of farmland around the world.
When there is no possible way to hide it, misinformation and a plausible cover story is better.
Combined with a spotter/signal relay drone, those little guys are probably a nightmare for logistics/artillery/bunkers. What they really look like is a mobile antivehicle mines.
The breakup of monopolies is the only viable recommendation. He missed a big one however -land ownershop monopolies. The others he's looking at the symptoms not the cause.
Fertilizer/pesticides usage is causing runoff because we are farming more ground than we need to. We are also farming using the wrong technology and locations. The highest yielding areas are arid regions with irrigation/high tunnels. It's physics and plant physiology. Arid regions = more light and heat. A lower disease, weed, and insect pressure is a nice addition. The limiting factor is water storage of course.
Moving farming away from high rainfall zones would eliminate most agricultural runoff. This would take massive investment into irrigation systems to move water hundreds of miles away (Mississippi to West Texas, New Mexico etc...) It would also completely interrupt the existing infrastructure. However it would reduce our land footprint by 80% or better.
Reducing our total land footprint would also help preserve the wild types/land races giving them space to grow.
Hey now, I know a bunch of farm laborers and started out as one myself.
They are nowhere near qualified for farm labor. That requires being able to work, not just regurgitate platitudes from the most recent bullshit management fad.
I once had to sit down with a suppliers accountant because the billion dollar company I worked for couldn't figure out why the PO and the invoices on about 50 orders were slightly off.
Reason: The supplier and billion dollar companies systems used different units of measure. So the conversion created a rounding error as the billion dollar company only went out 4 decimal places This led the the invoices being between $0.01-$0.05 off. All told the difference was $0.01.
It took us 2 hours and I had to buy the suppliers accountant lunch to get it sorted out.
Satire against a public figure has historically been ruled as free speech.
Until the corrupt billionaires pay the corrupt assholes on the supreme court enough to overturn it of course.
Depends on the state you live in.
First there is the debt collectors ability to sue to collect. This varies by state and the type of debt in the U.S.
The delinquency is on your credit report for 7 years. After that you can request it be removed.
Federally subsidized student loans have no end date. These can not be discharged. This is the top reason that school tuition rates have skyrocketed. The lenders can loan people with no income vast sums of money little to no risk.
I had a roommate in college who married a citizen of another country. He applied and got approval for a work visa in their spouses native country. Before they left they paid off their federal student loans with credit cards. Something like $20-25K. They also had private student loans of around $10K. They then moved out of the country and went delinquent on the debt. They ended up moving back to the U.S. around 15 years later. By that time their credit report was empty.
Unfortunately most of the casualties are from undesirables and minorities in Russia.
So certain groups are more like 1:5-10 (convicts, or minorities). However in the main cities where Putin holds his power it's like 1:5000-10,000.
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Lol, yes U.S. farmers can be highly ignorant of farming. The shit I have seen over the years. To be fair i have run into ignorant farmers all over the world. Most of the time it's due to available technology and information. However the Midwest and Prairie Provinces are something special, the term "willful ignorance" applies more frequently.
Also Deere in some regions also have a local monopoly with no competition close due the the before mentioned cult following. The farmers in those regions are mostly ignorant of the other equipment manufacturers.