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Is America Losing the Ability to Grow Its Own Food?

by locallost on 3/2/25, 8:11 PM with 6 comments

• by pmags on 3/2/25, 8:28 PM

  Poorly thought out USDA cuts are also going to hamper our ability to develop improved crops in the future, as discussed in this article:

  https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-gene-banks-key-n...

• by casey2 on 3/3/25, 1:23 AM

  Betteridge's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

• by DamnYuppie on 3/2/25, 9:13 PM

  I would think our biggest obstacle is large corporations trying to wring every dollar out of farmers. John Deere, Archer Midland Daniels, and Monsanto come to mind. Oh looks like Monsanto is part of Bayer now.