Just catching up but I wanted to chime in that I agree with you on this one. Or at least, my exposure to the term in the past matches yours.
It’s certainly not useful in modern industrial agriculture where every crop is being sold for market. Wikipedia says the term is used to differentiates from a “staple crop” i.e. what a farmer grows to eat for themselves. But staple crop redirects to “staple food” all of which are grown as commoditiescash crops so it’s an inconsistent mess.
Thank you abracadaniel, i think ive acted belligerently enough about this that i don’t deserve vindication but i do appreciate your opinion and agreement
I really wanted to post something like “chat, help, I’ve been trying to subsist on all my tobacco and cotton but i can’t, do you think it might have anything to do with any sort of intrinsic quality of these crops, like, that I might need to trade them for cash or other necessities, like they’re some sort of… cash… crop?” post but i also really don’t wanna keep arguing about it
Just catching up but I wanted to chime in that I agree with you on this one. Or at least, my exposure to the term in the past matches yours.
It’s certainly not useful in modern industrial agriculture where every crop is being sold for market. Wikipedia says the term is used to differentiates from a “staple crop” i.e. what a farmer grows to eat for themselves. But staple crop redirects to “staple food” all of which are grown as
commoditiescash crops so it’s an inconsistent mess.I think our schools just taught us wrong.
Thank you abracadaniel, i think ive acted belligerently enough about this that i don’t deserve vindication but i do appreciate your opinion and agreement
I really wanted to post something like “chat, help, I’ve been trying to subsist on all my tobacco and cotton but i can’t, do you think it might have anything to do with any sort of intrinsic quality of these crops, like, that I might need to trade them for cash or other necessities, like they’re some sort of… cash… crop?” post but i also really don’t wanna keep arguing about it