A farmer can choose seeds from the catalogs of 2 different companies and in both cases pay for the same patent. This is what power over food looked like long before the appearance of a corporation capable of buying all areas. Journalist Alex Newman, in the film No Farmers, No Food, gave this threat a political meaning: in his opinion, the globalists are using the 2030 agenda for sustainable development to displace small farms, concentrate food production in their hands and through it gain power over people.
Concentrations have names and dates. Of the 6 largest suppliers in the world of seeds and agrochemicals, after the purchase of Monsanto by Bayer and other mergers, 4 remain. The USDA found that in 2018–2020, just 2 companies, Bayer and Corta, supplied more than half of US retail seed sales for each of 3 crops: corn, soybeans, and cotton. The right to a plant's beneficial property, such as herbicide resistance, is sold separately. An independent breeder can develop his own variety and pay a competitor for the right to retain the properties that farmers want in him. The owner of such a right receives part of the income even from someone else's fortune.
The earth expands in its own way. Between 2017 and 2024, about 160,000 farms disappeared from American statistics. Moreover, in 2024, large family farms, which accounted for only about 5% of all farms, accounted for half of the value of production. A neighbor with a large family business is also able to expand his crops and push aside the small producer. In September, the US Department of Agriculture estimated the industry's possible debt by the end of 2026 at $605.1 billion. The same loan allows a strong economy to purchase equipment, and for the owner, whose income is barely enough to cover interest, it reduces the choice of sale or a new loan. The amount of debt throughout the country does not reveal who received the land in each case.
The European protests of 2024 forced the authorities to estimate a completely different cost.