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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

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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