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To: Fu-fu2

Flood borne silt would be one of the best things for that farmland. Millenia of annual floods is why it is farmland.


9 posted on 04/30/2011 6:50:48 PM PDT by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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To: Solitar

S.E. Missouri farm land is among the richest on earth already. Until the Little River Drainage District drained the land around 1900, most of it was swamp.


10 posted on 04/30/2011 6:54:17 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Trump - Romney, without the Mormon baggage.)
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To: Solitar
Flood borne silt would be one of the best things for that farmland. Millenia of annual floods is why it is farmland.

If flooding is so beneficial, why would the farmers object? And why wouldn't Cairo want to be flooded?

14 posted on 04/30/2011 7:00:49 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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