What do you mean by “funded by”?
Discussion
Government subsidies
Does USDA dictate how the farm is to operate if it’s getting subsidies?
Who seed can be purchased from in most cases.
leme guess, Monsanto? ;)
Monsanto? You mean the same company that burned down Rachel Carson when she wrote Silent Spring? That one?
Who?
She warned the public about DDT & pesticides. When the book initially came out Monsanto discredited her claims to a large extent. (Copy from wiki below) ⬇️
Fierce opposition my left foot… Monsanto was brutal.
In the late 1950s, Carson began to work on environmental conservation, especially environmental problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result of her research was Silent Spring, which brought environmental concerns to the American public. The book was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, but it swayed public opinion and led to a reversal in U.S. pesticide policy, a nationwide ban on DDT for agricultural uses,[2] and an environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.[3][4]
In 2006, Silent Spring was named one of the 25 greatest science books of all time by the editors of Discover magazine.[5]
Bingo
I believe the USDA has more employees than all of our farms combined.
Major crops and products are highly subsidized in the US (corn, soybean, wheat, cotton, and rice)
Only major producers are generally receiving subsidies at all.
Ok. Yeah I'm aware of subsidies but not sure of the scale or who gets what and why nor the rules around it. Watched a documentary a while back that talked about all of this but sort of forgot the details.
https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/agriculture/subsidies
This is from 2018, but it does address a number of issues that are usually ignored or obfuscated but pro ag articles/organizations.
The comment about the Reagan admin rolling back subsidies and the response rang home because I remember angry farmers in the town I lived in at the time.