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Re: Hope you Farmers Got a Piece of the Increases
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Posted by KentInKC on September 08, 2006 at 14:31:15 from (65.162.76.1):
In Reply to: Hope you Farmers Got a Piece of the Increases posted by TomR Ont on September 07, 2006 at 21:07:04:
Gentlemen, I'm not a farmer but have worked on farms when I was younger and lived around them all my Ozark life. I'm 54 now and, I'm sure like most of you, starting to see how this world is changing. My wife and I bought some beautiful land in the country (I know, you and I both hate to see that but it is a fact) and are starting a business selling wind and solar systems. So, I think about this stuff a lot and have since I was a teen. I'm starting to think maybe one bright spot for the farmer is biodiesel. Not corn, it costs too much money and effort to grow and competes with people's mouth. I'm thinking about bamboo. It takes little effort to get started, requires little or no fertilizer and can grow in muddy bottom land unsuitable for regular crops. Some species of bamboo can grow, I've heard, four feet a DAY! It can withstand heat and its sure going to be getting hotter. Since bamboo is useable for so many things from clothing to an excellent building material and even food, it should also be a fine thing to make biodiesel from. And whether or not you make biodiesel, the other markets for it could prove to make it quite a nice little cash crop. What do you boys think?
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