[RedMonqey]

We farm 580 arces in Middle Tennessee. We had this farm over 130 years and hope to continue it for another 130 years.

We have had corn, soybeans, hay, cattle, hogs, goat, and chickens but now we mostly have cattle. Black angus with a few angus/hereford mixed. Used to have tobacco but labour costs got too high.

We always had to rotate our crops and even then we left a few fields to lay fallow. Had good years and bad that's why basing national energy policy upon biomass from farms is not a good idea.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'm over as far east as Counce from time to time in my sales travel. Also into Memphis and down into Mississippi from there.
Wife's cousins operate her family farm in SW Iowa. They used to have livestock but now just corn and beans, beans and corn. On my mom's side, her father and uncle raised minks (zillions of them) in little cages. Guess this is more ranching than farming. I don't think you could find a nastier business than minks.

[P-40]

Had good years and bad that's why basing national energy policy upon biomass from farms is not a good idea.

So long as we don't consume the entire harvest in the same growing year, in other words, we store some it, I am not too worried. My preference would still be to have a system to can continue to operate on a petrol or a plant-based fuel source so we can use one if the other fails...or play one off against the other. Hopefully we will see some winter harvest also so everything is not all in one growing season.