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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (25193)	11/14/2007 4:13:22 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217750

There's no shortage of food. There's shortage of cheap food, cheap energy and cheap non-food agriculturals. The exporters of food and non-food agriculturals subsidized the economies that grew on the post boom. From 1945 to until couple of years ago. That is waht Jim Rogers has seen since 1999. For 1/2 a century the profits in the OECD countries were so much that they could dole out billions of dollars to subsidize their internal producers of food and non-food agriculturals. Thanks to us, we are sorting this out in the WTO. You can see when we left for the other for the past 1/2 century. Investors need ethanol market ASHLEY WALMSLEY Wednesday, 14 November 2007 WHEN trying to explain the situation of the sugar industry to business people, Robert Lyon often asks them if they would be happy to work for the wage they were getting 40 years ago. Not surprisingly, the answer is mostly no. But that is precisely what cane farmers are doing today. “Until we get alternatives for our sugar, there is no future,” Robert said. Labour and input costs have not remained stagnant though, ever thinning the profit margin for those in the industry. Robert owns an 8000 tonne cane farm at Abergowrie. Within his lifetime of being involved with the sugar industry, he has held various roles including president of the Queensland Mechanical Cane Harvesters Association. Robert has been to Brazil to see first hand how that country has embraced ethanol. He said they are mastering the efficient use of cane, using it to create alcohol, electricity and fertiliser. “With ethanol, we need to create a market before any investors would even look at it,” he said. *Full story in this week’s North Queensland Register, out Thursday.