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To: Kozak
Food in the midwest can't be harvested.

Yeah, Americans will just sit in their recliners and complain. Thank goodness for illegals 'cause they'll pick lettuce from sun up to sun down and cart it into market for us.

snort

192 posted on 05/04/2010 7:24:58 AM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: bgill

How many acres do you think can be planted and harvested by the average farmer with a museum moldboard plow and a mule? If of course they can get those things.

I hope you guys are right, cause if you aren’t, it won’t be pretty.


195 posted on 05/04/2010 7:29:41 AM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: bgill; Kozak

Maybe Kozak means things like the wheat harvest. Those combines need to cut huge fields in a short time in order to get the wheat at optimum harvest time. Also there has to be a way to get the wheat into storage and/or mills, and then run those mills. Plus getting it to market. Small scale mills would pop up, but I’m guessing a lot of the crop would sit in the fields just because of the shear size of the fields today. There is only so much wheat you can harvest with a scythe or sickle. Then you need to winnow it, then mill it, then get it to market (if there is one).

Midwest farm communities would be fine, though some of the nearby city folk would overrun some of them. The outlying ones might have some trouble with diseases we don’t think about though from not having a balanced diet (scurvy for example).


203 posted on 05/04/2010 7:32:50 AM PDT by Betis70 (Go Bruins!)
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