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11/2/2017 17 Comments #WeAreThoseFarmers![]() Shortly after our oldest was born, I started reading everything the search engine returned about how to feed children the “right way”. It would be a few more years before I realized this is almost never a good idea. From the first article on, an overwhelming weight was being pushed onto my shoulders. The weight of fear, fear of our food. Everywhere I looked, I was being told our food was scary. It wasn't like it "used to be". It wasn't "natural". It wasn't "simple" or "clean". His runny nose, my extra baby weight, his occasional rashes, my cough, our inability to sleep well, the mysterious missing other sock - all clearly stemmed from consuming this new "Franken-food". I was being told this, being sold this, by food manufactures and restaurants and bloggers and even other moms. I was being told I had to pay more, be more selective, and demand more. I had to "know my farmer" and “buy local” or else... And I was ready to do all of that and more. This was my child's health after all and I am his mother! And no one knows better than his mother. I also remember my first dose of reality. I was quizzing my farmer husband about GMOs, while eating sweet corn from our own field. He didn't laugh or put me off, but answered as best he could. He did smile a little at some of the crazier things I had bought into, but never laughed. Over the next few months, and continuing today, I started learning about our very own industry - modern agriculture – from a new perspective. The perspective of a mom. I spent more time on the farm; I spent more time with other farm families. I spent time with the scientists and researchers who develop our technology, with people who test it, with the people who actually use it. I spent time with our consumers, talking to them about our industry and hearing their own concerns. I spent time with other moms, who also happened to be well educated on farming and food. I spent time learning about where we had been, and where we are now. I learned that both eras in agriculture - yesteryear and modern times – are represented with inaccurate, incomplete stories often told to evoke emotion instead of truth. Soon, I realized - we are those farmers. We are those farmers they want you to fear. We are those farmers who raise GMOs. We are those farmers who use chemicals. We are those big farmers. We are those farmers who raise that grocery store food. We are the farmers who use GMOs. We use them by choice. We use them because they help us fight drought, erosion, pests and fungus. They help us leave a smaller footprint and be more responsible stewards of our land. We are also the family that proudly buys and consumes products grown with GMO ingredients because we understand what they are, how they help, and the science that has proven them safe for over 20 years. We are the farmers who use chemicals. We use chemicals carefully and in the correct amounts. We do not “soak” your food in chemicals. We use chemicals to manage risk and our environment and to provide you a safe, reliable food source. We often rely on modern chemicals that have been developed to be more effective and less toxic that chemicals used decades ago. But we are also the farmers who use GMO's and other technology to reduce our chemical use as much possible. Not because the chemicals we use aren't safe, but because they are expensive and require extra trips across the fields. We are those big farmers. From the outside looking in, people often look at us as large farmers. Surveys have indicated the average American defines a “large farmer” as anyone farming more than 100 acres. We are 20 times that. Other farm families would consider our farm size average or standard. We farm more acres and have more animals because we needed to grow to support another family returning to the farm. We farm more acres because we have equipment and technology that allows us to. We farm more acres and have more animals because we actually love farming! We are those farmers that raise grocery store food. We aren't "local" to hardly anyone, with the exception of a handful of folks in Linn County, Missouri. Our calves and lambs end up on your grocery store shelves, without any labels to distinguish it as "better" or "safer". Our corn and soy end up feeding animals across this country and in food products that end up on your store shelves, again, without any distinguishing labels. We are those farmers. The farmers you hear about on TV and social media. We are those farmers you read about on fast food bags and internet blogs. We are those farmers, but that is NOT our story. We are those farmers, but we are not scary, and neither is the food we are raising!
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Jay Finney
11/2/2017 12:19:53 pm
Nice
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Carla Herr
11/3/2017 09:13:37 am
Very succinct. We are those farmers too. We raise homegrown, fresh from the farm veggies.... I have had a man yell at me about chemicals while drinking a soda...I am so proud of what we do and get so frustrated defending ourselves for trying to feed the world.
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Tracy
11/7/2017 09:38:31 pm
Fantastic. #WeAreThosePlantScientists
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Stuart M.
11/12/2017 05:54:01 am
I saw this blog entry at AGWEEK. I am not a farmer, just an appreciative consumer of the food you and other farmers grow. I too fell for the organic propaganda for a while, but my love of science got me back on the right track. I had my own kitchen garden for four years in which I had some success growing brassica vegetables, carrots, zucchini, beets, etc. One year, I got the nutty idea I wanted to grow barley and oats. The aphids made short work of my barley and the oats were murder to thresh or hull or whatever its called. They both made excellent straw for the compost pile! To make my story short, I got a new appreciation for the miracles you farmers perform. Keep up the good work. I never hesitate to engage the "Food Nazis" in commentary flame wars and I always defend the American farmer!
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