Vote for Craig Bergland

Grain Reserve

Added: Jun 5th, 2008
In addition to a national Oil Reserve, we also need a national Grain Reserve. This will help stifle rapid food inflation and pay farmers a decent price for their goods, but will also provide us with an emergency edible reserve of quality food. And, like the oil reserve, should be carefully guarded and ONLY used in dire emergency. At one time we supposedly had a couple-year supply of grains. The latest I’ve heard is that it’s down to about 6 months. Scary. We are a society of some 400 million people who mostly are reliant on good weather, cheap fertilizers, cheap oil, and solvent farmers to get our daily food to our supermarkets. Imagine a break in the chain that provides us with these things we take for granted. I don't want to imagine that.