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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

>  This truly is scary stuff.
> 

Bev, I just finished reading James Kunstler's (of Clusterfuck Nation fame) 
new novel "World Made by Hand".  [which I highly recommend]  It takes place 
in 
2025 in a post oil world.  Among other things that have changed the world, 
they 
have almost no wheat since a strain of wheat rust made most acreage unable to 
grow it.  Like any civilized people, althought the protagonists are Yankees, 
they eat cornbread instead.

But reading about that wheat rust in the link you proffered was still a bit 
too much of fiction becoming reality.

I've been keeping up with the growing problem of world grain shortage for 
some time.  It's like the dot-com collapse, the price of oil, the housing 
bubble, 
etc.  Even with all the facts right in front of them as to what is inevitably 
coming, most people find a way to be in denial.  Alas, this one is no 
different, except this time a lot of peopel could die.

We grow a little wheat but buy a lot more and that's usually once every three 
years or so.  This spring is wheat stocking time and it's 60% higher that it 
was two and a half years ago (including transportation) and double what it 
was 
five years ago.  Yet when we stash away the wheat, I bet we say to one 
another in all too short a time, "Wow, do you remember when we bought this 
wheat for 
only $28 a fifty-weight!"

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