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[Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 2/23/2008, you wrote:
>   But the proprietor's face darkened and he said, "Yes, but the
> fertilizer for them has gone from $3.25 a fifty-weight last year to $7.75 
> this
> year!"  More than double.

I had a recent conversation with a Central Valley farmer who has over 100 
acres of orange groves.  His operation of chemical all the way and he was 
telling me that the cost of fertilizer, pesticides, and fuel has almost 
quadrupled.  Food prices are on the edge of exploding.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com