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To: marktwain

What do you mean no agriculture? An EMP attack will not kill one cow.


95 posted on 10/12/2017 5:59:28 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Not that I believe the doom and gloom of that article, but agriculture is very dependent on electronics, and it’s not only possible, but very likely that the cows won’t be milked,watered, or fed without a herculean effort on the part of the farmer, and even then many will die.


101 posted on 10/12/2017 6:20:11 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: central_va

No fertilizer production.

No transport of seed and fertilizer.

No distribution of insecticides and herbicides, or production of same.

No diesel fuel for plowing, planting, harvesting.

No electricity for milking (nearly all milk cows are milked with electric milking machines.

No electricity for processing harvests, storing them, distributing them.

If you have no electricity or communications, agriculture as practiced in the United States dies quickly. Many farms have enough supplies to operate for a month.

But we are talking a year here.

A complete plowing, planting, harvesting, storing, and distribution cycle.

Without power, how do the fuel stations on the interstate operate? How do the trains communicate with the communications infrastructure gone, destroyed by the EMP?

I am not saying that is probable or likely. I think we are tough and getting tougher under President Trump.

But *given* no grid or communications, the vast majority of agriculture stalls to a halt very, very quickly.


108 posted on 10/12/2017 6:25:30 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: central_va
Well, you're gonna have to train a boat load of people and get a boatload of buckets in a hurry, or you're gonna have some mighty unhappy heifers. An EMP attack will not kill one cow.

Just sayin

114 posted on 10/12/2017 6:33:11 PM PDT by onona (Please Lord guide my thoughts and actions)
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To: central_va

What do you mean no agriculture? An EMP attack will not kill one cow.

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How do you suppose they will get the meat, corn, grain, etc to market if there is no electricity to pump gas or the electronics in vehicles is fried?


169 posted on 10/12/2017 9:52:17 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: central_va
"...What do you mean no agriculture? An EMP attack will not kill one cow...."

Are just trolling at this point?

Unless you live next to that cow, you are not going to eat that cow. There is no way to bring it to market. All modern vehicles possess non-hardened electronics for the timing of the engine. Those vehicles won't work post-EMP.

207 posted on 10/13/2017 6:45:38 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Trump's election does not release you from your prepping responsibilites!)
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