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Re: ADM ad

I saw the last part of the ad in Wisconsin. ADM is Archer Daniels Midland, 
a big Corporation for Public Broadcasting contributor and a corporation 
that incurred heavy fines, and, I think, imprisonment, for price fixing. 
Anyway, the ad showed images of Africa, not North America, and was simply a 
feel good ad trying to say they are doing battle with world hunger. I, too, 
gasped at the ad. Our county conservationist has been dismayed here, in the 
hilly, driftless region, at the increase in soybean acreage which has led 
to a large increase in erosion. You wouldn't know it now when the fields 
seem solid green and thick, but in the spring soybean fields are very 
susceptible to erosion.
It's hard to get back to thinking about conservation after such tremendous 
sorrow, but I think we do need to slowly begin to return to what we each do 
best for our country.
Bob Wernerehl,
Barneveld, WI.

At 10:15 AM 09/17/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, the folks at ADM must be getting a little nervous about the 
>establishment of some sort of grassland protection/initiative provision in 
>the farm bill.  I caught the tail end of a TV commerical by ADM stating 
>that one arce of soybeans can feed more livestock that an acre of 
>grassland, so plant soybeans instead.  Has anyone else seen this?
>
>
>George R. Cunningham

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