Great post Gale, thank you for sharing. And thanks to the "cornpreneurs"—from researcher to farmers—who keep pushing crop yield forward! If progress will continue, it will be because of them, certainly not because of top-down mandates from Davos.
Your article connects with other misguided agricultural policies and with the looming threat of unelected managerial elites insulated from criticism. I wrote about it here https://mokagio.substack.com/p/bug-burgers-and-broken-feedback-loops (it's all before the paywall). Would love to hear your thoughts.
Dave B......."the vast monoculture created by so much of one type of corn."
YOU ARE POSSIBLY CONFUSED WITH BANANAS : "all commercially grown bananas in Australia are infertile. Specifically, the Cavendish banana, which makes up a large majority of the banana crop, is sterile and cannot produce seeds. This means they are propagated through cloning, using methods like suckers and tissue culture. " " Genetic Vulnerability:........The fact that Cavendish bananas are sterile clones makes them highly vulnerable to diseases, as they are genetically identical and lack the diversity to resist new threats. "
...............Even so , there are about 1,000 others that CAN BE MADE AVAILABLE !!!
" Not all corn is the same: We typically speak about corn in general terms as if it were just one crop. However, there are many types of corn, grown for different uses and featuring different colors.
There are six major types of corn: dent (most field corn grown in the United States today), flint (the colorful varieties also known as Indian corn), pod (a wild type from which corn as we know it today originated), sweet (the type eaten on the cob), flour (composed largely of soft starch and easy to grind) and popcorn (which has a hard moisture-sealed hull and a dense starchy interior that puffs when heated)."
Great post Gale, thank you for sharing. And thanks to the "cornpreneurs"—from researcher to farmers—who keep pushing crop yield forward! If progress will continue, it will be because of them, certainly not because of top-down mandates from Davos.
Your article connects with other misguided agricultural policies and with the looming threat of unelected managerial elites insulated from criticism. I wrote about it here https://mokagio.substack.com/p/bug-burgers-and-broken-feedback-loops (it's all before the paywall). Would love to hear your thoughts.
Dave B......."the vast monoculture created by so much of one type of corn."
YOU ARE POSSIBLY CONFUSED WITH BANANAS : "all commercially grown bananas in Australia are infertile. Specifically, the Cavendish banana, which makes up a large majority of the banana crop, is sterile and cannot produce seeds. This means they are propagated through cloning, using methods like suckers and tissue culture. " " Genetic Vulnerability:........The fact that Cavendish bananas are sterile clones makes them highly vulnerable to diseases, as they are genetically identical and lack the diversity to resist new threats. "
...............Even so , there are about 1,000 others that CAN BE MADE AVAILABLE !!!
" Not all corn is the same: We typically speak about corn in general terms as if it were just one crop. However, there are many types of corn, grown for different uses and featuring different colors.
There are six major types of corn: dent (most field corn grown in the United States today), flint (the colorful varieties also known as Indian corn), pod (a wild type from which corn as we know it today originated), sweet (the type eaten on the cob), flour (composed largely of soft starch and easy to grind) and popcorn (which has a hard moisture-sealed hull and a dense starchy interior that puffs when heated)."
https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/%E2%80%98all-corn-is-the-same%E2%80%99-and-other-foolishness-about-america%E2%80%99s-king-crops#:~:text=There%20are%20six%20major%20types,easy%20to%20grind)%20and%20popcorn
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INCIDENTALLY , WHAT EXACTLY ARE "THE DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS OF THE VAST MONOCULTURE
OF CORN" PLEASE ? [ apart from boredom ! ]
You’re conveniently leaving out the detrimental effects of the vast monoculture created by so much of one type of corn.