in the last garden blog i was remarking on the dearth of soybeans...well today i was driving around warming up my truck before taking it to be emissions inspected so i headed south-east into porter county between routes 130 and 30 and i found some...quite a few fields like the one in the bottom photo...so the traditional industrial agricultural crops are alive and well here in northwest indiana..i also found a bunch more corn and there really are feilds of alfalfa out there too...a pioneer variety by the look of the sign...that sign triggered a whole slew of memories from my childhood...when we'd go to visit my grandmother and my great aunts and uncles down in jasper county ( places like fair oaks...before the dairy, i never want to go to fair oaks again, it could not possibly be what it was when i was eight and i would absolutely hate to violate that memory...wolcott, parr, remington...my grandfather left the farm along with his brothers but my grandmother's kin stayed on the land) we'd go down route 231 through de motte and down through renesselaer ( where my granny lived on webster street) and all along the way by the cornfields would be little sign printed with an ear of corn, the name pioneer seed, and a lot number for the hybird seed in the field...today i saw a sign for the alfalfa, but nothing in the way of an explanation of what the corn or beans were...i only knew what they were because i rcognized them...so, have the seed giants like bayer and monsanto so restricted the genetic make of things like "roundup ready" or "liberty link" corn that there is no need to differentiate seedlots? does everyone have virtually genetically identical plants in thier fields? or is it so engineered with spliced genes that no-one wants us to know what's in those fields? just speculating here, but i wonder what the story is...more later...it's specualtion that won't go away.
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