- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.aspWorking with the flooding on the Missouri River this past year, our Sierra Missouri River activist network has been undercut by an organized farm lobby that respects truth and science hardly at all. Missouri and Iowa floodplain farmers even deny the cause of the flooding, instead claiming a conspiracy between the Corps and environmentalists. If twenty years ago the Corps and other scientists had heeded environmental critics and worked toward a functioning floodplian, we would not have seen this billion dollar disaster. The valley and its residents remain under the threat of similar floods in the future as the farm lobby has beaten the Army Corps into submission through the recent appropriations bill.
Unless the public wises up to corngrowers and the bureau, taxpayer dollars are going to rebuild a flood control system that led to the disaster we had in 2011.
The harvest of 2011 at last puts to rest one of their most compelling hoodwinks: more than half the harvest went straight to the ethanol refineries. They are no longer committed to feeding the world, just making a profit. Of course they will continue to claim they must abuse the earth to feed the world.
Jim Redmond
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Subject: Re: DM Register--thank you Francis Thicke
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.aspHow about a contest? Can anyone document an example of Iowa Farm Bureau lobbying where they weren't trying to hoodwink the public?We could probably offer a prize of, oh, $10,000--confident that no one will collect.BWOn Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Phyllis Mains <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.aspFarm Bureau trying to 'hoodwink' the public
Iowa Farm Bureau President Craig Hill’s argument against linking conservation compliance to crop insurance subsidies is based on a fallacy (“Farmers’ Concerns Are Not Imaginary,” Feb. 5).
The centerpiece of Hill’s argument against conservation compliance is that it would make fixing a gulley on a no-till field disruptive of field operations because it “requires prior Natural Resources Conservation Service approval, which is often a two- or three-day process.” That sounded incorrect to me, so I checked with an NRCS official, and he concurred that it is simply not true that prior approval is needed to fix a gulley on a no-till field.
The Farm Bureau should simply acknowledge that they would like to receive federal subsidies without obligation for conservation, rather than try to hoodwink the public with a disingenuous argument.
— Francis Thicke, Fairfield