Coincidentally, this happened last year as well. And farmers, already crippled by high production costs brace for another year of low prices and a government unwilling to increase anti-trust scrutiny on big oil and other agribusiness input manufacturers. This may be the hardest. Fertilizer costs are going up. So is fuel.
Prices are down.
Now I see GMO's are costing us markets. Seems like conventional seeds are a better bet. An alliance of farmers concerned about the economic effects of untested genetically modified seeds has launched a campaign to educate other farmers about the possible dangers. For the last few months England has been gripped in a slaughter of cows to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease. The illness, which spread like wildfire through the industrial feedlots of England has now leapt into the wild.