[artichokegrower]

A little info from down on the farm

[robroys woman]

Most farms are corporate-owned

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I wonder how much farm LAND is corporate owned. I wonder how much of the food that makes it to grocery stores is from corporate owned farms.

[Buckeye McFrog]

MegaMyth #1:

Farmers are Patriotic Conservatives.

This notion does not survive First Contact with the attempt to cut their favorite subsidies out of the Federal Budget.

[Kenny500c]

Behind a paywall, though.

[Da Coyote]

Not linking to slime. But, given that it’s the WaPo, most of us in the real world would have probably already been aware of the info.

[yarddog]

When I moved to Western Kansas, I was surprised to learn that farmers were not universally liked. In fact most people did not care for them.

I personally liked them OK.

[dainbramaged]

We used to pick strawberries in early summer back in the 60's in the Green River Valley of western Washington. Yes, that Green River.
The farms were owned by Japanese Americans and were beautiful - perfect rows, each plant was the size of a smart car and loaded with berries. It was hard work for a 11 year old, but I'll never forget the endless rows with Mt. Rainier in the background.
I think most of it has been paved over by now, turned into industrial parks.

[ifinnegan]

These are their myths

1. Most farms are corporate-owned
2. Food is expensive
3. Farming is traditional and low tech
4. A pesticide is a pesticide is a pesticide
5. Organic farmers and conventional farmers don’t get along
6. A GMO is a GMO is a GMO
7. Only meat with a “hormone-free” label is hormone free
8. Only meat with an “antibiotic-free” label is antibiotic free
9. Foods labeled “natural” are produced differently
10. Chemicals are the biggest threat to food safety

[Repeal The 17th]

“10 mega myths”
So, what are they?
(I am not going to go through some click-bait to find out.)

[Jim Robinson]

We don’t need farmers. We can just buy our food at the grocery store.

[blueunicorn6]

Gosh. I remember going out to my Uncle’s ranch to wrangle those little doggies.

Dashhounds I believe they were.

Hard to lasso them because they were so close to the ground.

Most of the time we just used some salad tongs to grab them.

And then it was off for them to be sheared.

Dashhound wool is some of the finest wool in the world. Ranks right up there with cheese mold for warmth.

Then, we’d rub their bellies and send them back out to roam the prairies frolicking and chasing Water Buffalo.

[yarddog]

I wonder how many people know where the largest ranch in the U.S. is located?

It is not in Wyoming, Texas or Oklahoma.

Florida.

[MarMema]

here is some trivia for you.

All the Lays chips you eat were grown in northern Michigan.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“consider these 10 modern myths about the most ancient occupation.”

Make that myth number 11. Hunting and gathering predates farming by many millennia.

[NoLibZone]

Farmers are pro illegals.

They will ALWAYS work for cheap labor.

[blueunicorn6]

11. Every person who is an American of African Descent raised pigs during the Obama Administration until the white man came and closed down all those pig farms in those apartments and then Obama gave them back their pigs.

False.

He gave them each $50,000 from the US Taxpayers.

“So, you’re claiming to be a pig farmer?”

“Yeah.”

“What did you feed your pigs?”

“You know....like regular pig food.”

“And that would be?”

“Uh, hay. Hay and kibbles.”