In recent days, radical control initiatives have been announced by different groupings of the mega-food cartels and the so-called conservation groups. Their focus is to enmesh individual farms and lands into their systems, giving the cartels complete domination of whether food is produced, to the point of whether the means to life will continue.
This month is the deadline for farmers to enroll with Cargill for its “Regenerative Agriculture” program, in the six start-up states where Cargill is offering it: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee. You designate which of your fields you will have Cargill verifying your farming practices “to quantify carbon outcomes,” and financially you get a “minimum guarantee payment in December 2021, and the balance after verification is complete in January 2023.” They will have their partner firm ReGrow use remote sensing and other monitor, report, and verify (MRV) tools to follow everything you do. They sucker farmers by saying, you already have such good “regenerative” soil practices, why not sign up with us, and make some money from it? (Said the spider to the fly.)
