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

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
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --- 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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