Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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They're paying vegetable fields.
This onion producer in South Texas, the biggest onion producer in Texas, she has 8,000 acres.
She was paying $1,500 per acre for pesticides, for mainly glyphosate and for manual labor.
And now with this machine, it's $300.
She's saving over $1,000 an acre.
Is this showing how it does?
She's got 8,000 acres.
So it's a million-dollar machine, which sounds like a lot, but you've got 8,000 acres, and you're paying $1,500 an acre per growing season.
I missed one.
There's all these kind of new, exciting technologies that give us a light at the end of the tunnel to transition.
And it could be very, very fast.
What the president wants to do is accelerate that.
He says, yeah, we've got we can't allow.
the company to go bankrupt we can't allow foreign interference but we got to get off of this stuff we got to give these farmers an off ramp so that they can get off it because they don't want to be on it and nobody wants to without crashing the food system so this is a bridge this is a bridge to yeah exactly you think would be technologies like this for weeds what about for bugs you know it's harder these systems are are more difficult
They're not yet economic in the corn field, the row crops.
They're economic for organic corn.
And I talked to an organic corn farmer who is in love with his machine.
But, yeah, they can do it for bugs, too.