"WHY ARE WE WORKING SO HARD AT PRODUCING, AND PROMOTING, A PRODUCT THAT PEOPLE DON'T WANT?"
I will be the first to admit that I do not have the knowledge, or scientific education, to have a "right" or "wrong" opinion on the GMO. We have done our own plantings and studies, and have learned the hard way, you need to let those Round-up Ready beans get "pretty woolly" with weeds, before you spray.
Direct inquiries to our web site, our farm, and visits with the elevator, are telling me people are interested in two things, PRICE and QUANTITY. Once people see the quality, it is not in question. GMO have not really been a concern, right here in central Iowa…YET…. However, to the export countries, the environmentalists, the newspapers, and farm magazines, government agencies, seed and chemical companies, grain companies and merchandisers, it is a very major concern, and for very different reasons.
Boy, did you ever feel like you were caught in the middle?
The same question has been popping in
and out of my head for two years now… "Why are we working
so hard at producing, and promoting, a product that people don't
want?" We in Central Iowa MAY participate in growing GMO
products, if we want to, but we certainly don't HAVE to!
We have been growing superior, high quality grains here, when
the abbreviation "GMO" could have described the overdrive
in your Chevy.
My mother continues to be the most wonderful cook, but she used to put onions in the soup. I would fuss and whine, as I did not like onions in my soup. Mother would say, "You can't taste them!!!" I would say, "Then why put them in there?"
Whether my Mother's soup analogy applies
or not, if the end users are REALLY SERIOUS about top quality
and purity of product, there is no better place to begin to protect
it, than the beginning, right here, at the Krause Farm.
