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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] "Get Ready For Higher Food Prices" GoesMainstream
  • Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:42:11 -0000


Hi Liz,
Timing of price increases is all good and well. The main reason is that many of the biggest grain producers in the world have seen disastrous crop failures in the recent past and thus grain prices are going up.
I do think though that we could very well see that next seasons crops will do no better and thus that prices will keep going up and up. My reason for thinking this is that the reasons for crop failures will not likely abate, like extreme weather caused by climate change and SDS or sudden death syndrome caused by gm and glyphosate spraying. It should get worse if anything.
Whether that will save family farms I sincerely don't know.
But I think you are right in your conclusion that we all better start growing more of our own.
john


Interesting info about the timing of price increases. I hadn't thought about a chicken's lifespan entering into that, for example. I'm also glad if farmers are better able to pay down their loans. That by itself may slow the invasion of corporate agriculture into family farms. On the other hand, any time a profit appears on the horizon, you can be certain people with no interest in the work itself, but looking only to get rich out of it, will come sniffing around. We don't need any more agribusiness driven only by the bottom line.

Take-home message? Get out there and grow more of your own. And in addition to that, make an effort to find more local growers where you can buy things you aren't able or ready yet to grow yourself. Not everyone has to grow everything. I buy blueberries every year from a friend rather than grow my own. Helps to support him, and frees up my land to grow other things. He buys my blackberries in return.

Liz

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