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Re: Increase in Seed Prices (OUCH!)


>The increase in seed prices is the result of the federal government
>allowing farmers throughout the midwest to interseed CRP land with
>prairie species.  It makes no difference where the seed comes from, as
>long as it is a prairie species.  This brought the demand for seed to
>rise more than one thousand fold.  I would guess seed prices could drop
>in two to three more years, though I am told by prairie seed growers
>that "it ain't gonn'a happen."  We should all get in the business.
>

The root reason is much more evident:  GREED.

Nothing less, and nothing more.  What better reason can exist to encourage
seed barter.  I seldom buy seeds.  And I get all my prairie seeds from
prairie friends back home.

Richard


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