http://agwired.com/2008/07/08/cow-ends-cause-problems/ What's new in the world of agribusiness Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:19:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://agwired.com/2008/07/08/cow-ends-cause-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-54638 MasseyFerguson Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:30:21 +0000 http://agwired.com/?p=5791#comment-54638 That idea has been bandied about for a while now, and almost always from urbanites (in my personal experience, ymmv). One interesting thing to note is the current trend among farmers, both in NW Iowa where I live, and around the country (as evidenced by the numerous tractor and ag forums I visit each week). Many farmers have firmly decided that global warming, in its entirety, is a myth. "Sure had a long winter - kinda blows the global warming idea out of the water". (Nevermind that global warming is partly experienced via increasingly marked extremes in weather, not warmer temperatures everywhere all the time, but anyways) The question then is how the farming community is going to respond to allegations that they're behind global warming when many are currently trending toward denial of it. My gut reaction is that (on a personal level) they'll ignore the allegations rather than educate themselves about how to respond to such comments. Any comments or observations about that topic:? You spend a lot of time traveling and speaking with people, maybe you've observed otherwise. That idea has been bandied about for a while now, and almost always from urbanites (in my personal experience, ymmv). One interesting thing to note is the current trend among farmers, both in NW Iowa where I live, and around the country (as evidenced by the numerous tractor and ag forums I visit each week). Many farmers have firmly decided that global warming, in its entirety, is a myth. “Sure had a long winter – kinda blows the global warming idea out of the water”. (Nevermind that global warming is partly experienced via increasingly marked extremes in weather, not warmer temperatures everywhere all the time, but anyways)
The question then is how the farming community is going to respond to allegations that they’re behind global warming when many are currently trending toward denial of it. My gut reaction is that (on a personal level) they’ll ignore the allegations rather than educate themselves about how to respond to such comments.
Any comments or observations about that topic:? You spend a lot of time traveling and speaking with people, maybe you’ve observed otherwise.

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