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magical thyme

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17. there was also a time when the heartland was renamed "the dust bowl"

Reply to Peepsite (Reply #7)

Mon Jul 23, 2012, 06:15 PM

Jul 2012

on a temporary basis.

Correlation does not equal causation.

Paying or not paying farmers subsidies is not automatically related to the presence or absence of stockpiles of grains.

In fact, it is far less related to stockpiles than the current drought is.

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