After drought blights crops, US farmers face toxin threat, page 2


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reply posted on 18-8-2012 @ 07:40 PM by sonnny1
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Absolutely crazy. No contingency plan either, from our Government. THIS is what the Government should be prepared for.



reply posted on 18-8-2012 @ 07:43 PM by Stormdancer777
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My solution to all my problems has always been a higher power.


reply posted on 18-8-2012 @ 07:43 PM by rebellender
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indeed!!!
all we get is the ugly finger. They care not for our country...only for their paychecks, and constituents I say vote with a write in of "ZERO"


ETA: I pray for a rib eye every morning. So far nothing has slammed onto the dinner table. It must be my faith, not holding my mouth right....or is it I prayed a miss..........nah, the steak didnt miss the plate, it never fell from Heaven.
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reply posted on 18-8-2012 @ 08:01 PM by sonnny1
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
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My solution to all my problems has always been a higher power.


I used to not believe that way, actually.

Now, I know from experiences, that something does exist. I do pray.




reply posted on 18-8-2012 @ 09:04 PM by Wrabbit2000
I hate to say it... but there are two droughts..or they've merged.. whatever. This is the other one and it started well before Nature had her say on things.



Those signs are up and down the California Central valley and I started seeing them a couple seasons before I got off the truck. That was 2010.

A few weeks ago, Ty and Janet Lompa were doing the unthinkable: cutting down 110 acres of walnut orchards. That’s roughly 10,000 trees and a third of their entire acreage.

“It takes 30 years to get ‘em here,” says Janet Lompa, “and about a minute and a half to knock ‘em down.”

Ty Lompa helped plant many of these trees with his father, and they used to water the orchard with flood irrigation from the project built by the federal government.


Most of California gets its water from a huge estuary called the Delta, where two big rivers join in the center of the valley. But so much water was being pumped out of the Delta that a tiny smelt there, an endangered species, is disappearing. So late last year, a federal judge ruled that the amount of water being delivered to the south had to be sharply cut back.


“Since mid-February, as a result of that biological opinion, we’ve lost approximately 300,000 acre-feet of water. It’s floated out the Golden Gate.”
Source

That was a bad scene when nature was still treating the rest of the nation well and crops were coming in with solid numbers Now, well.... this thread says it all and as the story above notes, some of the damage done can't be undone quickly or easily. Orchards wiped out...and by Government action, not nature.

We've doomed ourselves, by our own bad judgement and decisions...and the roots started years ago, IMO. Now we're at what Glenn Beck used to refer to as "The Perfect Storm" phase, before he went so far off the deep end himself. The storm is almost here.....get out those umbrellas and batten down the hatches. It's gonna be a bitch.


reply posted on 19-8-2012 @ 04:41 PM by GareyGaia
Maybe its time farmers start transitioning to more sustainable agriculture techniques.

Industrial agriculture deplete the soil of its nutrients and sterilize the soil through use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. The depleted soil lack in the minerals humans needs thus giving us calories without the nutrition we need causing obesity. The body is starving of the minerals and people just keep eating nutritionally depleted food. Not to mention the devastating ecological effects of monoculture. In nature their is a variety of organisms that keep the ecosystem in balance. In a industrial farm one crop is planted over vast acres. This attracts one type of pest and not enough beneficial. This is an ignorant farming practice and the solution is to use more poisons (pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers) that leach into the water systems and harm the ecosystem.

Modern industrial agriculture is bound for failure unless their are some serious changes. It'd be easy for me to blame the mega farmers, but that be to easy. It is the fault of the consumers of the US's lack of consciousness awareness of where their food comes from. As an American we vote with our dollar and most of us have voted in favor of the unethical and destructive methods of industrial agriculture. Their is a total lack of reflection on the model nature has given us to create abundant systems that serve both human and wildlife needs in monocultures.

Well this is the part that I tell you the good news. Its called becoming self sufficient and you don't have to wait for the rest of the world to catch on. A lot of people are learning about a farming philosophy called permaculture. Permaculture symbolizes permanent culture or a sustainable culture. I permaculture we create systems that mimic the patterns in nature that serve both human and natures needs. Variety is the spice of life in this practice.


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