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2017-04-06 Government

We're From the Gubamint and We're Here to Help

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-04-06 08:37|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 He doused them in diesel and torched them with old tires. "I thought I'd help out the Earth," he said.

Ah'm speechless

Posted by Skidmark 2017-04-06 09:56|| 2017-04-06 09:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Thought amaranth was used as food. Have seen amaranth flour in the store--good source of protein for a plant. Is Palmer amaranth different than food quality amaranth? Just a question from an injuneer not a farmer.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-06 10:31|| 2017-04-06 10:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Amaranth is used as food but corn brings more money.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-04-06 12:40|| 2017-04-06 12:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Accidental contamination?

Posted by Pappy 2017-04-06 12:44|| 2017-04-06 12:44|| Front Page Top

#5 If the pigs love it, perhaps the farmers can hire pigherds to bring along a herd to preferentially eat the stuff. Transport would no doubt be a small challenge, but getting free feed plus a fee would invert the usual husbandry calculations... In California there are professional goatherds who hire out their animals eat the brushy weeds that feed wildfires -- 200 goats can clear an acre a day, according to one supplier.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-04-06 14:52|| 2017-04-06 14:52|| Front Page Top

#6 TW, it is common in the South to turn goats loose on Kudzu, a vine imported from Japan. The goats can clear out this stuff in no time and they like it. Chattanooga has a Kudzu festival.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-06 15:42|| 2017-04-06 15:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Goats eat anything, don't they? They'd probably go for amaranth too.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-04-06 16:14|| 2017-04-06 16:14|| Front Page Top

#8 This may be a more important story than anything else going on today.

We tend to take food security for granted in this country.

Posted by charger 2017-04-06 22:18|| 2017-04-06 22:18|| Front Page Top

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