thought this may be of interest to you Matt

Entrepreneurs Criminalized: The Great Wall of Bureaucracy Comes to America
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By Michael Edwards Activist Post The purge of the farming class in various Communist dictatorships is well documented. The regimes in China (1958-62) and Russia into the Ukraine (1920-39), identified those who were independent of state control, and implemented a heavy-handed oppression designed to turn true productivity toward collectivist goals. These regimes are but a version [...]

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Matt a heads up
post on WUWT re Hal lewis...this comment is important, seems to be an aussie and is contactable its about the 6th? comment down

Tim Curtin says:
November 6, 2010 at 7:40 pm

Great letter. What a shame the National Academy of Sciences lacks a single member with Hal Lewis’ integrity, with its dedication in each isue of PNAS to Lysenkoism and other anti-science. Only last month it published this by Lysenko’s descendants:

Forecasting potential global environmental
costs of livestock production 2000–2050
Nathan Pelletier1 and Peter Tyedmers

Abstract:
“Food systems—in particular, livestock production—are key drivers
of environmental change. Here, we compare the contributions of
the global livestock sector in 2000 with estimated contributions of
this sector in 2050 to three important environmental concerns:
climate change, reactive nitrogen mobilization, and appropriation
of plant biomass at planetary scales. Because environmental
sustainability ultimately requires that human activities as a whole
respect critical thresholds in each of these domains, we quantify
the extent to which current and future livestock production contributes
to published estimates of sustainability thresholds at projected
production levels and under several alternative endpoint
scenarios intended to illustrate the potential range of impacts associated
with dietary choice.Wesuggest that, by 2050, the livestock
sector alone may either occupy the majority of, or significantly overshoot,
recently published estimates of humanity’s “safe operating
space” in each of these domains. In light of the magnitude of estimated
impacts relative to these proposed (albeit uncertain) sustainability
boundary conditions, we suggest that reining in growth of
this sector should be prioritized in environmental governance”.

Hi Matt
How is it doing over there in God's Country? Saw your little bit about the (high) cost of dams. Have you read Peter Andrews two books, Beyond the Brink and Back from the Brink? As I only have a quarter acre suburban block, it is a bit hard for me to try them out myself. The gist of the books is to store water in the soil. There is a guy on the forum, Ian James, from Avon who regularly posts on the forum. I imagine the system would be better for grazing than cropping, I imagine it would be a bit bumpy trying to drive a header across all those swales.
Cheers
Col.