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  • From: Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Teamsters endorse Obama
  • Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:20:42 -0800

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




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