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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gst" data-source="post: 176894" data-attributes="member: 373">I enjoy having good discussions about topics such as public lands, farm bills, conservation ect....among other things.I like learning and sharing facts and letting people make up their own minds. I am pretty confident in the ability of people here in  ND to reason yet. It is disappointing when personal crap clouds these discussions and decreases their value and drives people away from participating. Sometimes I think people maybe do that on purpose............There is the argument that the innovation of the American farmer if just left alone would result in lower food costs as effeiciencies and technologies are as of yet exceeding global growth. Trent Loos always shares in 1940 it took 15 acres to produce enough food to feed one person. It now takes 1/3 of an acre per person. But there is a rapidly  approaching point if we are not there now in that curve line when production will not keep up with global demand. Continuing decreasing arable acres with increasing global population will require those technologies to be expanded to areas not yet using them to keep pace. At that point the nations food security programs and theories will be tested. Anyways I hope there can be an agreement reached on the grasslands issue to allow for the promised multiple usage while maintaining the integrity of a larger area of relatively undeveloped natural beauty to share.</blockquote>