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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: PING! Michael
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:21:12 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-11-24, Carol <cshenk@virginia-beach.com> wrote:
> Mike Duffy wrote:
>
>> On 2024-11-23, gm wrote:
>> 
>> > Nonsense, Mike, the US will simply 
>> > step up produce imports from Ontario...
>> > 
>> > And as "dsi1" has wisely said, "In the
>> > future, robots will pick our produce.."
>> 
>> Wetbacks or not, we do not have the climate
>> for citrus, most nuts, avocadoes, &c.
>
>> Corn, leaf crops & berries, sure, with
>> half or less the growing season.
>
> You might be thinking Canada?  I get 3 lettuce crops a year easily and
> with effort, 4 is easy.
>  
>> https://www.usamadeproducts.biz/electronics-televisions.html
>> 
>> Your 'projection' is based more on wishful
>> thinking than fact-based analysis.
>
> In the links on tech items which you limited to just 1 with few
> listings, they show the tech is here. It was one of several items.
>
> Talk with Songbird on his garden. You seem to be calling doom when
> there isn't any.  Food will be fine.  You may have to get frozen or
> canned of somethings not in season in areas north of the equator in
> winter but that's really it or pay more for imports.   All our areas
> are somewhat limited cropwise so you have to grow what suits the area.
>
> We just cleared a bushel of pecans that the neighbor's tree gifts me
> with every year.  At least it's not the walnuts up the street! They
> turn into missles when hit with a lawnmower. These are not isolated
> events, just the products very with climate.  Like, I'm not optimal for
> red apple types though Gala and Pink Lady do well.

You really have no idea the tonnage of food required to feed
335 million people.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton