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Re:What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a l... by knughit on Friday January 01, 2016 @07:37PM (#10824344)
Why do you assume a random DuPont agriculturalist, who pushes papers all day, understands food better than a professional farmer our their in the empirical field?
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Re:What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a l... by vacri on Friday January 01, 2016 @08:28PM (#10824484)
Back in the real world, BigCo agriculturalists also go out into the literal field. I used to work for a company that did agricultural telemetry, and our clients were big and small, and our BigCo contacts were frequently contacting us from somewhere other than an airconditioned office.
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Re:What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a l... by tptacek on Friday January 01, 2016 @09:27PM (#10824667)
Why do you assume that professional farmers out in their empirical fields aren't intensively trained in much the same manner as the employees of Dupont? People get degrees in agriculture.
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