[Army Air Corps]

Currently, i live in a farming/petroleum community. The farmers here don't care if they sell a few acres because technology (biotech, chemistry, etc) allows them to generate more per acre than they ever have in the past. Soybeans grow rather quickly and you can grow tons and tons of the stuff per acre. Also, we still have enormous amounts of farmland. If we were still using 1920s farming technology, I would be worried. We are using technologies that allow an acre of land to be five times, or more, productive than it was a generation ago.

[RedMonqey]

My family owns a 500+ farm here in Tennessee. True technology has greatly expanded the production per acre BUT we are losing VERY good farmland to urban sprawl at the same time the population is increasing. Somewhere the two lines will intersect and that's where the trouble starts. Just in my lifetime, I've seen thousands of acres of PRIME FARMLAND lost in the Clarksville TN. area, alone

And we're a SMALL town. I see this across the state and in other Southern States.

Hell, my family will do very well in the future as the food, energy prices soar. We are pretty self sufficient.


If I was a city dweller in a high rise apartment, I'd be working on an ulcer. We are spending our children's inheritance