Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Well, besides program cuts, apparently stores and distributors are working
on a tighter schedule for just in time inventories and cutting costs. Less
waste and less left to donate to anyone. Don't know any more about that.
Will we start seeing shortages in some places for certain items? 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/2/2007 at 7:21 AM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>What in the world does this mean?:
>
>"Right now, the agricultural economy is very strong and the surpluses
>aren't available for us to purchase," said Jean Daniel, a department
>spokeswoman. "Certainly we're empathetic, but unfortunately we cannot
count
>on those bonus commodities every year."
>
>The wording would seem to mean that the demand for those products is very
>high.  Who is buying this "surplus" that, in the past, has been available
>("to purchase"), to food banks?  Export?  To where?  Is this some of our
>trade deficit returning to cause problems for the less fortunate?
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: TradingPostPaul 
>  To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org 
>  Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 7:45 PM
>  Subject: [Livingontheland] U.S. food banks, in a squeeze, tighten belts
>
>snip