[EternalVigilance]

Agriculture? Have you seen that country?

If we were talking about Iowa here, I might give some credence to your concerns, but the Powder River Basin is hardly prime farmland.

Real farmers farming real agricultural land can't even get a decent price for their crop because of government policies...the impact of any crops grown in that region on our agricultural productivity as a nation is negligable, to say the least.

[RonF]

To my knowedge, the term "agriculture" includes not only waving fields of grain, but also raising livestock. I think the latter is a major activity in the area being discussed here.