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Where can I find the communities that are upset/distrust NASS? Is this on twitter/forums/fb? I'd like to take a deeper look into the problems they're discussing
by burger_moon 6y ago
Where can I find the communities that are upset/distrust NASS? Is this on twitter/forums/fb? I'd like to take a deeper look into the problems they're discussing but I'm an outsider, not sure where to begin looking.
- bluGill 6y agoOne problem is that farmers often consider it a secret they don't want to share. For good reason, if you know how much crops will produce next fall you can go to commody markets and make a lot of money. That money comes out of the farmers potential profit in some cases as they are playing the other side of the trade and so the less you know compared to them, the better the deal they can get. Farmers know what is in their fields, but prices are affected by fields on other continents which the farmer doesn't know. Any information the farmer can get but you cannot is to his advantage. (this applies to all farmers, they need to know what happens in Ukraine, Brazil, Australia... But they need you to not know)
- kickout 6y agoVery late reply...But if you want to hear an admitedly biased (towards negative) source, go read the crop comments on agweb.com