Insane Governments Ruining Agriculture: 1930s Suffered Lysenkoism and in 2022 Nitrogen is Suddenly a Threat

As an historian of governments going from authoritarian to the even more regrettable totalitarianism, one wonders "Why?" harm agriculture. Sadly, that governments get into the mode of declaring war on countries as well as upon their own citizens can be criticized, but no amount of research can explain why. After assaulting oil and gas, for political imperatives, Ottawa is suddenly compelled to attack agriculture. At a time when crops around the world are unusually threatened. Beginning in the 1930s, the Soviet Union became convinced that biologist Lysenko's theories would improve agriculture. These were brutally imposed upon farming that had been decimated by previous experiments in collectivization. Indeed, more than 7 million farmers died of famine. Despite making a desperate condition worse, his crank theories prevailed. In retrospect the key function was not food, but control. Understandably, as it turned out, enough was confiscated to feed the urban governing classes. But not the farmers, who merely wanted to work the land as they knew best.