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"From harvest time to the next harvest time, there's usually lots of wheat in store, but that wheat usually belongs to somebody," explained [Dave Ogden]. "It either belongs to the farmers who are storing it and waiting for better prices, or it belongs to the people who bought it and want to make it into something else. So it's not like it's [the Department of Ag's] wheat or the government can seize it or anything. It's commercially owned."
"Most of the wheat is grown on contract," Ogden said. "It's sold before it's grown or at least before it's harvested for the most part. There would be some around, but whether we'd have enough to feed everybody, I'd doubt it.""We're trying to create another food system while there's already one in place and, to all outward appearances, is working," explained [Janie Burns]. "To most people, they go into the supermarket, there's food on die shelf, it's what they want, it's a price they might gripe at but it's a price they can afford and as long as it's there, what's the problem? It's incumbent'upon those of us who see the fragility of the system to move into the system and undergird it."See the full content of this document
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An Isolated Idaho
Idaho's borders have been sealed. Interstates 84, 15 and 90 were closed this morning at the Utah, Washington, Montana and Oregon state lines. All state highways have been blockaded. In-" and outbound flights at Boise Airport have been grounded and all flights canceled until further notice. Lewiston's seaport has been shut down. Movement in and out of Idaho by road, air, rail, water and foot has been completely halted for an as yet undetermined length of time.
Choose your own far-fetched calamity to set up this hypothetical situation.Maybe BW columnist Bill Cope has finally succeeded in convincing President Barack Obama to sell off a state to better the economy, and the president picked the Gem State.Maybe Canada invades Idaho and kicks off a years-long occupation in an effort to e...See the full content of this document
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