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[william Eggers <wce1482 AT yahoo.com>]

All farmers here in Iowa use propane to dry corn and soybeans.  I doubt if 
they will go back to picking it in the ear.  First picking in the ear 
requires a corn picker, and they haven't been made for a number of years and 
most of the ones that the farmers had, have been junked.  Also picking in the 
ear takes more time and most farmers here raise about 2000 acres of corn and 
would never get picked that way.

--- On Sun, 10/19/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fall Happenings
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 9:29 AM

The county south of us grows corn for Frito Lay cornchips 
and it definitely dries on the stalk. But then, our 
climate is semi-arid.--Sage

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:24:46 -0400
  EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Propane to dry corn???  Seriously?  Is this a common 
>practice?  I wonder
> how much fuel we use to dry crops a year?  I had no clue 
>that crops were
> dried like that.  I guess I always thought it was just 
>allowed to dry
> naturally.  I guess I am showing my ignorance on the 
>subject.
> 
> Bev, in NW Georgia, with sore muscles-forgot how heavy 
>the chainsaw is!
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:10 AM,  <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> Here's where the two of you would be mistaken:  Bankers do NOT make the
> rules.  Bank policies are set by federal agencies, at the time this was 
> going on it
> would be the rules governing Freddie and Fannie via the Federal Reserve and
> the Treasury.

James, you are often right (nearly a hund red percent on things
related to homesteading), but are you sure about this. I will have to
search for it, but I've read that the Fannie and Freddie loans _were_
made with rules, and that the vast majority are not defaulting. (Okay,
that doesn't explain why F&F are in trouble. I'm reading as fast as I
can...)
>

> The banks had little choice in the matter.

My bank sure did.
>
> However the Realtors(R) are supposed to be operating under some code of 
> ethics
> or the other. Yet during this time the NAR was the single lagest contibutor 
> to
> the senators and congressmen on committees setting banking policy.  
> Thousands
> of Realtors(R) pocketed the 6% knowing full well the person could not afford
> the house... knowing full well or else being too dumb to know otherwise and
> small odds.

My husband was a Realtor, but he didn't do much in the way of sales.
His expertise was on the commercial property assessment side. I can
tell you he wasn't impressed by Realtors calling themselves
professionals.

I appeal to Gene for another side of the story.

Marie