<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Forwarding from another list...<br>
<br>
Terry<br>
<br>
<br>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
My grandparents on both sides and several aunts and uncles farmed in
southern Indiana.<br>
None are farming now. I came across the following web site when I read
an article in<br>
today's newspaper, "Horse-and-plow farming offers financial, other
benefits."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://www.smallfarmersjournal.com/"><
http://www.smallfarmersjournal.com/ ></a><br>
<br>
I tried Googling the article but no joy.<br>
<br>
Here is an excerpt:<br>
<br>
"Lynn Miller, whose quarterly Small Farmer's Journal caters to
horse-farming and<br>
tracks it closely, figures there are about 400,000 people in America
who depend<br>
in some measure on animal power for farming, logging and other
livelihoods, and<br>
he says the number is on the rise."<br>
<br>
Terry<br>
<br>
*****<br>
jay cole wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid20050620001418.59026.qmail@web54002.mail.yahoo.com"
type="cite">
<div>John</div>
<div>I understand your feelings. I come from a family of farmers,
both my parents families farmed. I had at one time 2 uncles from my
dads side and 4 from my moms side that farmed. The only relatives I
have now still farming are one cousin from each side. Family farming as
it was when I grew up on an Iowa farm is long gone.</div>
<div>Jay Cole<br>
<br>
<b><i>John Ault </i></b>wrote:</div>
<blockquote class="replbq"
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><tt>I
just hate seeing family farms turned into corporate farms. Their <br>
sheer size makes it tough on an independent family farm to compete.<br>
John<br>
<br>
<br>
--- In <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:U-Tapao@yahoogroups.com">U-Tapao@yahoogroups.com</a>, jay
cole wrote:<br>
> John<br>
> My uncle died a couple of years ago. My aunt just sold the farm in
<br>
southeast Iowa(very good productive land) for $3000 an acre, and <br>
that even included some timber acres. Before the farm crisis in the <br>
80's(remember the movie "Country" with Jessica Lange?), another <br>
uncle sold land for $3600 an acre, then it went down to $2000 or <br>
less. It looks like it is rebounding.<br>
> Jay Cole<br>
> <br>
> John Ault wrote:<br>
> Jay --- Without question. And even if they don't become rich, they
<br>
> could at least save their farms instead of some conglomerate
picking <br>
> them up at auction.<br>
> John<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> --- In <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:U-Tapao@yahoogroups.com">U-Tapao@yahoogroups.com</a>, jay
cole wrote:<br>
> > We have had previous discussions on the use of ethanol as
fuel. <br>
> There is a great article in the Tampa Tribune today by Marla <br>
> Dickerson of the Los Angeles Times about the use of ethanol in <br>
> Brazil. Cars in Brazil run gasoline with 25% ethanol, and some run
<br>
> 100% ethanol. By the mid 80's virtually all cars sold in Brazil
ran <br>
> exclusively on ethanol. Shortages of ethanol caused that
percentage <br>
> to drop. The article compares what Brazil has done to the United <br>
> States. It states that all cars sold in the USA since the early
80's <br>
> can run on a 10% mix of ethanol. We do have 5 million flexfule <br>
> vehicles already on US roads that can burn a mixture of 85%
ethanol. <br>
> I know the state of Iowa vehicles have bumper stickers saying they
<br>
> run on 85% ethanol.<br>
> > This article is very positive about the use of ethanol. I
know I <br>
> would rather make American farmers very wealthy than a bunch of <br>
> towel heads.<br>
> > Jay Cole<br>
</tt></blockquote>
</blockquote>
<br>
<!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| -->
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
"Only a zit on the wart on the heinie of progress." Copyright 1992, Frank Rice
Terry W. Colvin, Sierra Vista, Arizona (USA) < fortean1 at mindspring.com >
Alternate: < fortean1 at msn.com >
Home Page: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Stargate/8958/index.html">< http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Stargate/8958/index.html ></a>
Sites: * Fortean Times * Mystic's Haven * TLCB *
U.S. Message Text Formatting (USMTF) Program
------------
Member: Thailand-Laos-Cambodia Brotherhood (TLCB) Mailing List
TLCB Web Site: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.tlc-brotherhood.org">< http://www.tlc-brotherhood.org ></a> [Southeast Asia
veterans, Allies, CIA/NSA, and "steenkeen" contractors are welcome.]</pre>
</body>
</html>