We had no idea. You betcha we will be pulling for him.
Obama has been out talking up agriculture in the US. There’s a lot to this issue that hasn’t received any coverage.
The Obama administration has been pushing very hard for a coal terminal to be built in WA state, pulling out all the stops and calling in a lot of favors to ship PRB coal to China.
The problem is that China has told SSA and their backers not to count on China to buy the coal in the long term. Actually the China trade rep told the developers and a group of grain growers that was assembled, that the Chinese market for the PRB coal was extremely time limited and dependent on a weak US dollar, 3.5 years at the outside. The trade rep also said that what CHINA WILL BUY, is as much grain and soy beans as the US can grow.
To go along with promise of exporting grain to China, the SSA officials promised to get federal restrictions on grain growing lifted to allow farmers to
once again grow grain on their land.
What the environmentalists are saying is that the plan is really to get the restrictions lifted so that Monsanto can buy the land and create huge commercial growing fields that can grow grain for China, genetically altered grain that will not reproduce.