Re: Garbanzos for peace!

["Andrew Hagen" <xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sorry to hear about your horses. You're not kidding about drought.
Drought is a recurring problem for farmers and ranchers on the Great
Plains. I need to qualify my previous response. On the whole,
irrigation is not necessary for successful farming and ranching in the
region. Drought is temporary and scattered, but when it hits, it's
devastating. Either irrigation or emergency funds for drought-stricken
farmers are needed, though, along with a host of well thought
agricultural policies to prevent all kinds of problems, including
losses of family operations, topsoil erosion, rural impoverishment, and
overuse of chemicals.

Andrew Hagen
xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 21:54:14 -0500, phillp2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Well, I just have lived for the past -- well almost 40 years on the
>prairies -- rode my horses, lived in my rural communtity, etc.
>cultimated my garden, tendered my pasture, etc, etc.
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>Yea and we had a hell of a time with chemical crop dusters.  Yea
>and we had a real problem with drought.  Yea and we had a real
>problem with all the aspects of  the corporate attempt to take over
>the ag. industry.  We moved back to the city  and, all of my horses
>are for sale (and saddles and bridles and tack).
>
>Paul Phillips
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>           	"Andrew Hagen" <xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> I'm a native of Fargo, North Dakota, and have spent quite a lot of time
>> on farms in the Great Plains. Do you have a more specific objection to
>> my remarks? Maybe I made some error.
>>
>> Andrew Hagen
>> xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:48:29 -0500, phillp2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> >Obviously, Andrew doesn't live on the prairies or deal with
>> >agricultural issues.  Pity.
>> >
>> >Paul Phillips,
>> >Economics,
>> >University of Manitoba
>> >
>> >> Most of the Great Plains does not need irrigation to produce crops with
>> >> enormous yields, year after year. There are many problems such as
>> >> overuse of insecticides and herbicides, and topsoil erosion, but we
>> >> shouldn't stop farming the land for those reasons.
>> >>
>> >> Andrew Hagen
>> >> xah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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