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Originally Posted by reidjr
...what concerns me is some are willing to have windmills fill up all up the farms so it could come down to one day we have to get food shipped in from the west in terms of things like corn etc.
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Unless the jet streams alter extremely there will not be enough wind capacity for that to happen. My understanding is that most of the farmers willing to do this have already looked at the possibility. The remaining lands are too inconsistent for wind generation vis-a-vis grain prices to make a living off of. Not that most (non-dairy) farmers can make a living from farming anyways.
Remember the situation isn't, the local farmers are shipping their corn to local cattle farms first, and exporting the rest. Everything is trucked to the grain elevators that goes into a giant pool; the local cattle farmers buy their own feed that wasn't packaged locally. It's not like there are a lot of cattle here anyways. We're growing feed for Alberta and mid-US, to grow food (steaks) that we the people consume.
Hay for dairy cows is a different story, but is irrelevant because its not a commodity.