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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

You are right in your advice, of course.  And, Leslie could be right about 
hyper-inflation, down the road, and it would affect seed prices.  

But, of all commodities, I expect the gov't to keep the price of food most 
stable.  They (with our taxes) will subsidize big ag , even morwe than they 
already have.  Watch for no-interest gov't loans to big ag, soon.  

The food will be crappy, maybe even worse than now.  

In the meantime, while the gov't is sorting it out, meat and dairy producers 
will continue sluagtering, rather than paying animals' upkeep, so for a 
while, meat should be cheaper.

If we have hyper-inflation in food prices, there will be much more to worry 
about than just saving seeds.  Right now, gov't is trying to subsidize 
everything from housing to healthcare.  I don't believe they can do all of 
that; but, it will be easy to continue to subsidize big ag, to keep the 
populace fat.  Fat , happy people are more complacent and compliant than 
hungry citizens.

What seeds from the nursery do you save, by the way?

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--- On Fri, 3/6/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Yet another reason to save seeds. And to be in a position
> where you don't 
> need to buy things.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA
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