Roguewolfe

Don't worry, it happens to the best of us.

Can you cite an example of "use their wallets to push legislators around and try to crush the craft beer"?

I ask because I've been directly involved in the craft beer scene for a decade and I think you're expressing a fairly commonly held opinion that has no basis in fact. Simply competing isn't being evil.

Edit: Also, to the gentleman above me, Miller and Coors are now one company.

At any given moment, what ratio of commodity food crops (corn, wheat, potatoes, etc.) are tied up by contracted production vs. available to the spot market? Does it vary wildly between commodity types (cereal grain for premium bread flours vs. corn for liquid dextrose production)?

Choosing rats that develop tumors naturally at rates of ~90% after two years, then going, "wow they have cancer, must have been GMOs" after watching them for two years (iirc, the timeframe might be off, but those two timeframes are the same)

This is the important part. Those rats were predisposed to developing tumors regardless of their diet.

So most production is open market? Do you have any idea what the ratio is, or is it too crop-specific to generalize?

You mention oilseeds - Canola is a great example of an emergent designed crop that sort of took over (at least in the USA) that segment of ag - it knocked sunflower and other oil crops out of the running for decades (though they're making a comeback). Is most canola contracted, or is most canola open market production?

The sector I'm most familiar with, the brewing industry, is almost entirely contracted (barley for malting, and hop varietals for beer flavor), though industry collusion and price-fixing is actually driving people back to the open market.