And that was one of the points as I remember - US agriculture is
notoriously fuel hungry even by our standards way down here so using
grain, pulses or whatever other crops for biofuel is often a negative
equation, unless you're using the wastes - and many of those would be
used more efficiently as sileage as well rather than feeding grain to
beasts.
And I was just thinking, the other day driving in was once a rural
area that it always seems to be the prime land that disappears under
suburban sprawl - as I noted the disappearance of yet another market
garden area.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 10/04/2007, at 7:47 AM, AG Schnozz wrote:
> Nobody will starve unless prices remain artificially low. At $1.80
> per acre you can't even afford the diesel. It's far more profitable
> to turn that top-grade acreage into a subdivision.
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