You couldn't patent it. You couldn't modify it genetically. You couldn't sell expensive fertilizer alongside it

The temper had everything big agriculture claimed to want. high yield, drought resistance, natural soil recovery.

Agricultural journals labeled it unsuitable for commercial production. Even while research papers praised its climate strength, in simpler terms, it wasn't profitable and profit beat survival every time.

they need to regulate big egg just as they need to regulate big pharma big insurance etc

big egg indust industry

with the Trump anomic budget cutting funding to Farms to snap with the closing of usaid well it means that rural communities are going to go hungry and these small to midsize Farms that are already struggling are going to go bankrupt and then they're going to be forced to sell for pennies on the dollar to huge investment firms under trumponomics ma andpa Family Farms are going to be wiped out rural communities are going to go hungry and billionaires are going to be walking away counting the cash

garnering space at grocery chains, even at the more principled ones such as Whole Foods, often requires 6-figure slotting fees and the ability to produce at massive scale.

Independent family farming used to be much more common [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. But continued enclosures and increased centralization throughout the food markets have made it more difficult for farmers to survive without growing big. “Get big or get out,” said Earl Butz, Richard Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture in 1973.