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THE US HAS NO GRAIN RESERVES...; no cheese butter dry milk grains.. etc..
Topic Started: Jun 7 2008, 04:18 PM (416 Views)
Wiolawa
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*** The US has no remaining Grain Reserves ***
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HOPE U GUYS R PREPARING!!!!

The US has no remaining Grain Reserves



June 6, 2008
Tri State Observer, Milford, PA

WASHINGTON - Larry Matlack, President of the American Agriculture Movement (AAM), has raised concerns over the issue of U.S. grain reserves after it was announced that the sale of 18.37 million bushels of wheat from USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust.

“According to the May 1, 2008 CCC inventory report there are only 24.1 million bushels of wheat in inventory, so after this sale there will be only 2.7 million bushels of wheat left the entire CCC inventory,” warned Matlack. “Our concern is not that we are using the remainder of our strategic grain reserves for humanitarian relief. AAM fully supports the action and all humanitarian food relief. Our concern is that the U.S. has nothing else in our emergency food pantry. There is no cheese, no butter, no dry milk powder, no grains or anything else left in reserve. The o°©nly thing left in the entire CCC inventory will be 2.7 million bushels of wheat which is about enough wheat to make 1⁄2 of a loaf of bread for each of the 300 million people in America.”

The CCC is a federal government-owned and operated entity that was created to stabilize, support, and protect farm income and prices. CCC is also supposed to maintain balanced and adequate supplies of agricultural commodities and aids in their orderly distribution.

“This lack of emergency preparedness is the fault of the 1996 farm bill which eliminated the government’s grain reserves as well as the Farmer Owned Reserve (FOR),” explained Matlack. “We had hoped to reinstate the FOR and a Strategic Energy Grain Reserve in the new farm bill, but the politics of food defeated our efforts. As farmers it is our calling and purpose in life to feed our families, our communities, our nation and a good part of the world, but we need better planning and coordination if we are to meet that purpose. AAM pledges to continue our work for better farm policy which includes an FOR and a Strategic Energy Grain Reserve.”

AAM’s support for the FOR program, which allows the grain to be stored o°©n farms, is a key component to a safe grain reserve in that the supplies will be decentralized in the event of some unforeseen calamity which might befall the large grain storage terminals.

A Strategic Energy Grain Reserve is as crucial for the nation’s domestic energy needs as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. AAM also supports full funding for the replenishment and expansion of Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust.

The May 1, 2008 CCC Inventory report may be reviewed here

[link to www.tristateobserver.com]
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robin
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growing up we didnt know the govt stored food for us.
now i know and it is empty. :rolleyes:

i dont look forward to starving.
stocking up is so hard to do!
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This is frightening for sure. Nobody wants to starve. They are getting rid of the food obviously. Inflation is no longer even an adequate term for what is happening with food prices. One idea that struck me the other day was that we could grow our own edible blue-green algae. I dont know much about this process, and havent researched it yet, but it might be a way of having an uncontaminated food source that you can produce yourself. Maybe in like a fish tank or something. Just wanted to get this idea out there.
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http://www.antenna.ch/en/malnutrition/grow...-spirulina.html


http://www.geocities.com/PicketFence/3622/


here some sites that teach you to grow your own spirulina
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