Most states used to have a series of annual agricultural reports detailing such things as increases in sorghum production, the number of acres in all crops, the adaption of new crops like soybeans, the number of pigs raised and slaughtered, and county data on dairy production.
I don’t know how to think about sustainability. We get our rice in 25 lb bags at the Asian market. We’re definitely not going to grow our own. And doubt very much that the rice we’re buying with the cash we earn with our labor is sustainably grown or shipped.
It’s not that technology can’t save some of the backbreaking work, but we’re entirely used to an easy life. We’ve mostly bought our comfort and convenience with fossil fuel and someone else’s hard work.
I walked to the dentist instead of driving my unsustainable car this morning. And I try to commit a few other little acts of sustainability as I can. It’s not going to be enough. The only way to get to a real sustainability might be an Apocalypse, and most of us won’t come out on the other side. The piper will be paid.
But, still, your rice story was a good one to read. Thanks.
We are all products, if not creators, of our time. Here, there's that one guy who refuses to ride in cars and grows his own food in North Lawrence. He is probably the most principled among us, at least on the front of taking responsibility for his own existence. The rest of us coast on short cuts all day long.
Yeah, Ventria Bio Science was trying to put human genetics into rice. They grew at least 2 poor crops under a pivot out by Chapman. That is a whole other story and I've been collecting information about it.
I don’t know how to think about sustainability. We get our rice in 25 lb bags at the Asian market. We’re definitely not going to grow our own. And doubt very much that the rice we’re buying with the cash we earn with our labor is sustainably grown or shipped.
It’s not that technology can’t save some of the backbreaking work, but we’re entirely used to an easy life. We’ve mostly bought our comfort and convenience with fossil fuel and someone else’s hard work.
I walked to the dentist instead of driving my unsustainable car this morning. And I try to commit a few other little acts of sustainability as I can. It’s not going to be enough. The only way to get to a real sustainability might be an Apocalypse, and most of us won’t come out on the other side. The piper will be paid.
But, still, your rice story was a good one to read. Thanks.
We are all products, if not creators, of our time. Here, there's that one guy who refuses to ride in cars and grows his own food in North Lawrence. He is probably the most principled among us, at least on the front of taking responsibility for his own existence. The rest of us coast on short cuts all day long.
Hi Dan. Wasn’t there something that happened with testing of gm rice in Kansas? Maybe it wasn’t rice. Or maybe not paddy rice
Yeah, Ventria Bio Science was trying to put human genetics into rice. They grew at least 2 poor crops under a pivot out by Chapman. That is a whole other story and I've been collecting information about it.