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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

No, I have not followed the "Marcellus Shale" issue, though I do remember you 
saying that you might have NG lease options.  I don't know what to make of it 
all.

  If you followed this guy's article, he is saying beofre BO and the dems 
(whom he supports) worries about propping-up, bailing-out, of Detrotit , 
Citi, more Wall St. ( which are all already decided by the dem congress, 
anway), they should first make sure that agricultural products are taken care 
of 

 (and I clicked on one of his links, the guys riding a bicycle through a 
wheatfield talking about windmills to produce ammonia? -- not exactly the 
'monsanto' type.  That is whay I posted the article, to see what people who 
have a better understanding of the business of agriculture thought.

This is only one of several articles I've recently read warning of very 
near-term U.S. food shortages



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--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Midwestt farming problems - 2009 Food shortages
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 9:54 AM
> 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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