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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on December 11, 2008, 04:43:02 PM
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The Famine Of 2009
(http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/12.08/images/corn.jpg) Last week I received a very concerned call from South Dakota farmer and agronomist Bryan Lutter. "Neal, we're out of propane!" I figured this was personal distress – he and his family farm over three square miles of land and I know this has been a tough year for many people. He promptly corrected my misconception when I tried to console him. "No, everybody is out, all three grain elevators, we can't get fuel for the bins, and we're coming in real wet this year."
There are equally dramatic issues due to the bankruptcy of Verasun and the apparent insolvency of the nation's largest private crop insurance program. Payments that would have come in June or July of a normal year are still not dispersed at the end of November and this has grim implications for next year's crop.
I started digging into the details and unless I'm badly mistaken people are going to be starving in 2009 over causes and conditions being set down right now. It's a complex, interlocking issue, and I hope I've done a good job explaining it below the fold ...
LINK (http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/12.08/famine.html)
In 232 years that this country has been a country, we have never had a famine. Apparently, until now.
Glenn Beck will be talking about this tomorrow on his radio program. He mentioned on the air that his researchers were firming up the facts on it today.
Are you and your family ready?
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so what should we start stocking up on??
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non-perishable foodstuffs. Canned foods. Guns and ammo. Looks like it's time to make some jerky, too.
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so what should we start stocking up on??
*burp*
Excuse me.
What was that about a famine?
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Electric grain dryers folks there are plenty around.someone just playing on people ignorance.
By the way a 2 sq mile farn is a little under 1300 acres, a little on the small side for farms where i grew up.
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Well, the DUmmies need not worry, Obama and foodstamps will take care of them. And besides, most of them look like they could live 6 months or more on body fat alone.
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Well, the DUmmies need not worry, Obama and foodstamps will take care of them. And besides, most of them look like they could live 6 months or more on body fat alone.
Foodstamps can't buy what rotted in the fields.
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Total panic-mongering.
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Electric grain dryers folks there are plenty around.someone just playing on people ignorance.
By the way a 2 sq mile farn is a little under 1300 acres, a little on the small side for farms where i grew up.
The article says over 3 square miles, which would put them at around 2,000 acres.
....and a grain elevator will make some kind of arrangement before they let all that grain spoil.
....and another thing, the famine, if caused by not paying the farmers in June and July of 2008, will most likely put any coming famine in 2010 in my ipinion.
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The article says over 3 square miles, which would put them at around 2,000 acres.
....and a grain elevator will make some kind of arrangement before they let all that grain spoil.
....and another thing, the famine, if caused by not paying the farmers in June and July of 2008, will most likely put any coming famine in 2010 in my ipinion.
Hell yea a grain elevater will make arrangements. they'll arrange to dock the hell out of the price per bushell.
The crops are there there will no famine. just be a bunch of farmers getting screwed as usual yet they'll again as usual take all the heat for rising prices.