Guest guest Posted January 17, 1999 Report Share Posted January 17, 1999 On 16 Jan 1999, Samba das wrote: > Regardless of Y2K we should start living more simply in the way Srila > Prabhupada wanted us to. Y2K is a good enough reason to start. You can get > grain mills which can serve a small family or for the needs of a temple > community. Thanks for the advice prabhu, I'll do it. I've decided I'll move to India in September and start trying to live that simple life. Mill ground grains here I come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 1999 Report Share Posted January 18, 1999 > > > My second worry is about petroleum. Even if the USDA gets its own act > together, what about petroleum? I'm always worried about petroleum-based > agriculture, and this situation makes me even more concerned. If > petroleum does not have its act together, fuel prices are going to spike > up. That will really impact agriculture, because agriculture is one of > the most petroleum-dependent industries there is - and it can't shift over > to coal or windpower if gasoline gets too expensive. There is no such > thing as a coal-powered tractor or windpowered tractor. And that farm > equipment burns up a lot more fuel than your car does. Maybe Madhava Gosh > could tell us how much fuel it takes to run a combine harvester for one > day during harvest season. My brothers plant about 1600 acres a year, and use a total of 9-10,000 gallons of diesel, and 7-8,000 gallons of gas a year. They have storage for about a thousand gallons each, which he is planning on having full come Christmas. He would have storage for the whole year if he could, and figures he could make money by buying in the off season and storing, but over a thousand gallons, all kinds of EPA regulations kick in that make it prohibative. More of a crisis then Y2K in agriculture is the lack of young farmers. My one brother is 47 and the other is 41, and the younger one and a few others between him and the 47 year old are the youngest farmers still working. There are virtually none younger than that. This is in Walsh county North Dakota, which in the 70s when I was still there was the second largest tonnage potato producing county in the US, behind only Aroostook county , Maine. Incidentally, this info is quite up to date as I did call him to commiserate about the Vikings loss in the NFC conference championship :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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