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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Forest fire
  • Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:53:11 -0700


Political action isn't likely to reverse the damage already done. And I don't
know how we can tell what affects our regional climates the most, fossil
fuels, deforestation, plowing up the prairie, or what. What farmers can do is
try to adapt with better methods of conserving soil and soil moisture.

paul, tradingpost AT gilanet.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Soilmakers/
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On 3/21/2006 at 7:33 AM Sam White wrote:

>Not in America, anyway. A collective action by us
>must be a result of a major event. Or a major event
>that isn't twisted by the media and government.
>
>Sam
>
>--- Marty Kraft <martyk AT allspecies.org> wrote:
>
>> Yes it's ominous but is it ominous enough to
>> translate into political
>> will significant enough cut greenhouse gas
>> emissions?
>>
>> Marty Kraft
>> On Mar 21, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Bill Shoemaker wrote:
>>
>> > Allan
>> >
>> > You're in Virginia and it's that dry? I know the
>> west has been dry for
>> > years. The OK/TX/KS region is almost like dustbowl
>> days. We had our
>> > worst
>> > drought in a long time in northern Illinois last
>> year and we have not
>> > recharged the subsoil yet this year. Kind of
>> ominous.
>> >
>> > Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
>> > University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture
>> Research Center
>> >
>>
>www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hey, Dave - How's the rain THIS spring? We are at
>> .3 for this month
>> >> and I think 3.5 at this time in March is normal.
>> There was a FOREST
>> >> FIRE near us over the weekend. I have to admit:
>> I'm a little worried
>> >> about how dry things have become. It's mid-March
>> (sort of) and THE
>> >> PIGS WERE MAKING DUST CLOUDS TODAY!! -Allan in
>> Sunny West Virginia
>> >






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