[Homestead] Midwestt farming problems - 2009 Food shortages
Lynn Wigglesworth
lynnw1366 at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 30 12:42:11 EST 2008
I read the whole story. What they need to do is take the chicken factories
from Maryland and relocate them to the Dakotas...voile...free fertilizer for
the crops, and a clean Chesapeake Bay.
Lynn Wigglesworth
----- Original Message -----
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 at yahoo.com>
To: <homestead at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Midwestt farming problems - 2009 Food shortages
> No, I have not followed the "Marcellus Shale" issue, though I do remember
> you saying that you might have NG lease options. I don't know what to
> make of it all.
>
> If you followed this guy's article, he is saying beofre BO and the dems
> (whom he supports) worries about propping-up, bailing-out, of Detrotit ,
> Citi, more Wall St. ( which are all already decided by the dem congress,
> anway), they should first make sure that agricultural products are taken
> care of
>
> (and I clicked on one of his links, the guys riding a bicycle through a
> wheatfield talking about windmills to produce ammonia? -- not exactly the
> 'monsanto' type. That is whay I posted the article, to see what people
> who have a better understanding of the business of agriculture thought.
>
> This is only one of several articles I've recently read warning of very
> near-term U.S. food shortages
>
>
>
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>
> --- On Sun, 11/30/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Midwestt farming problems - 2009 Food shortages
>> To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
>> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 9:54 AM
>> Industrial farming runs on fossil fuels, so if there IS a
>> shortage, it
>> doesn't run at all. I don't believe there is a
>> shortage...or if there is,
>> it's a created shortage to drive prices back up.
>>
>> I don't know if you've followed the Marcellus Shale
>> issue....it's a large
>> area of untapped natural gas (I'm sitting right on top
>> of it). It is
>> alledgedly going to make the local landowners all rich, but
>> the gas
>> companies have stopped leasing land because the price of
>> natural gas has
>> dropped. They've capped the wells they have drilled
>> (there are 2 just
>> completed and capped within 2 miles of me) until the price
>> comes up again.
>>
>> Lynn Wigglesworth
>> Tioga Co. PA
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "bob ford" <bobford79 at yahoo.com>
>> To: <homestead at lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:25 AM
>> Subject: [Homestead] Midwestt farming problems - 2009 Food
>> shortages
>>
>>
>> > First; I'm always skeptical of anything posted at
>> the DailyKos. There is
>> > so much blatant propaganda and lie-ing on the site
>> (plus the emotional ,
>> > irrational ,profane language, ). But, this is another
>> agricultiral
>> > article which I have read in the past couple of weeks
>> and this author does
>> > seem genuinely and rationally interested and somewhat
>> personally
>> > knowledgeable about the subject.. Lots of people are
>> saying that 'food'
>> > could be a near term problem - even
>> here................................
>> >
>> >
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >
>> > Excerpt:
>> >
>> > " The Famine Of 2009 (updated 4x)
>> >
>> > by Stranded Wind
>> >
>> > Thu Nov 27, 2008 at 08:18:15 AM PST
>> >
>> > Last week I received a very concerned call from South
>> Dakota farmer and
>> > agronomist Bryan Lutter. "Neal, we're out of
>> propane!" I figured this
>> > was personal distress – he and his family farm over
>> three square miles of
>> > land and I know this has been a tough year for many
>> people. He promptly
>> > corrected my misconception when I tried to console
>> him. "No, everybody is
>> > out, all three grain elevators, we can't get fuel
>> for the bins, and we're
>> > coming in real wet this year."
>> >
>> > There are equally dramatic issues due to the
>> bankruptcy of Verasun and
>> > the apparent insolvency of the nation's largest
>> private crop insurance
>> > program. Payments that would have come in June or July
>> of a normal year
>> > are still not dispersed at the end of November and
>> this has grim
>> > implications for next year's crop.
>> >
>> > I started digging into the details and unless I'm
>> badly mistaken people
>> > are going to be starving in 2009 over causes and
>> conditions being set down
>> > right now. It's a complex, interlocking issue, and
>> I hope I've done a good
>> > job explaining it below the fold ..."
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/27/11143/168/114/667032
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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