I'll start to get nervous about the "food shortage" when somebody is renting
the 2 fields I have open and clamoring for the rest that we're planing in
trees...
Corn grows well in northern Maine, labor costs are low, shipping is always a
problem...
I think most of the food worries in this country (read some of
survivalblog.com) are manufactured (that stupid rice ration comes to mind) to
help agribusiness come out better in the farm bill...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 07:47:58 -0400
From: Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Feeling blue over trying to be green
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I think they are stretching things quite a bit:
"The reason is that it takes land to grow fuel. That inevitably leads
to the
destruction of forests and grasslands, the studies say."
When was the last time you heard of somebody clear-cutting land so
they could grow soybeans and corn? Do these people have any idea how
much cropland the government is currently paying farmers to not grow
crops on? Or is that what they mean by "grasslands"?
60 acres of those "grasslands" were bought by my family 30 years
ago as "croplands". Since then, I've seen it used as cropland,
hayfields,
pasture, and now wild grasses. The local wildlife (especially deer,
pheasant,
and turkey) liked it best when it was planted in corn. These days they
sleep in the grass and do a lot of their eating in the neighbors' corn.
I'm not sure how large the deer herd would be without hunting pressure.
We had 30 cattle and 25-30 deer 15 years ago, now we have 15-20 deer.
Clearly, land that can support 30 or more cattle could easily support
100 deer, but that sort of deer population (1000 deer per square mile)
would quickly be deemed a nuisance.
Mitch.
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