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  • From: "Del Williams" <delannw AT dlogue.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Farmers group sees seeds of disaster
  • Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 06:18:53 -0600


The cost of fertilizers is unlikely to change conventional agriculture in
the United States.

What the article was telling us is that more U. S. tax dollars will be
appropriated to help conventional farms continue to do business as usual.

In spite of the world markets and in spite of low prices, farmers continue
to plant crops that are barely if even profitable. Then they also go out
and pay premium prices for GMO seed so they can grow something that no one
in the world wants to eat. Talk about the farmer coming before the
customer.

And now we're supposed to feel sorry for them because of the price of
fertilizer. This is such misleading nonsense. Ask some of the corn
growers who are so vocal about ethanol and who grow for ethanol plants if
they even use it on their own farms.

Del Williams
Farmer in the Del
Clifton IL
delannw AT dlogue.net






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