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Just put a postit with my name on it and drop it off at the office straight across the street from the museum. Give it to Blyth, she is the blond at the desk. Are you going to the DigIn Decorah events?
Yes I have read the article about Borlaug as well as other articles showing that the sytem he created is now breaking down in many areas. Rust has begun to show up in his wheat varieties and many farmers can no longer afford the fertilizer and chemical inputs required in that system. If you want, just e-mail or IM me at nesleksa@yahoo.com It would be quicker and easier.
Have a good day!
Bruce
Just curious as to when I can get my book back. Several other people would like to peruse it.
Have a good day!
Bruce
Have you got spring fever yet?
Just checking to see if you have gotten finished with the book yet. I am interested in your thoughts on it.
Bruce
I have been opposed to rBGH for over a decade. My original opposition to it was because animals receiving it broke down at younger ages and had a much shorter life expectancy. The real science did not start coming out until about 5 years ago. As with any drug, hormone, GMO, etc., it gets approved on junk science and only much later get's disproved with real science. The only problem is that most bureaucrates are such greedy little morons that a few bucks and a slight of hand by Monsanto, DuPont, Dow and others gets initial approval and it takes years of quantitative research to disprove them. Now, bring that up in a room full of farmers and you will be lucky to get out with your life. Even those, other than me and a very small minority, with college undergrad and grad degrees have bought into industrial agriculture scam hook, line and sinker. They view any opposition to that way of life as a threat to their existance. Even one of my best friends views me as a quack on this issue and won't even consider that his way might even be a little wrong.
He and several other friends won't even consider trying an alternative even on a small portion of their farms for comparison. When I beat him on net profit per acre on any crop, his statement to me is always "well you probably couldn't do it on a larger acreage" to which I reply "I don't need as many acres to make the same amount of net income" and we both end up doing our own things year after year. Apparently, the only way to change that mentality is for the Industro/Agro system to collapse. So much for higher education in agriculture.
How are you comming on the book?
I will be back up next Thurs. and Fri.. Let me know if anything works out.
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