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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Midwestt farming problems - 2009 Food shortages
  • Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:42:11 -0500

I read the whole story. What they need to do is take the chicken factories from Maryland and relocate them to the Dakotas...voile...free fertilizer for the crops, and a clean Chesapeake Bay.

Lynn Wigglesworth

----- Original Message ----- From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Midwestt farming problems - 2009 Food shortages


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................................
>
>
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>
>
> 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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