This week's column

U.S. sits pretty in global food trade network

In the global oil industry, there is Saudi Arabia and everybody else. But with the planet experiencing the worst food crisis since the tumultuous 1970s, the question begs, Who is the "Saudi Arabia" of agriculture? Well, it turns out that North America is the OPEC of global grain.

When the professional fear mongers try to scare you with America's "oil addiction," remember this: if the world's got us over a barrel on energy, then we've got the world over a bread basket. Moreover, while global climate change will progressively diminish OPEC's importance as we're forced to improve transportation technologies, it'll only strengthen NAFTA's role as the world's preeminent food exporter.

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SH strikes again: Tom's headline was 'NAFTA - the OPEC of food'

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One would suggest that we are the bread basket, which would make South Amelica the bread cupboard. Unfortunately, I see the Dem's using our food commodities as a tactic to bargain with. It's obviously cheaper to subsidize the farmer, than every poor citizen on food stamps. By using our food as a bargaining chip, once again proves that the U.S. cares more about the coasts, than the rural areas. I think the Dem's perceive the Carter Administration and the Russian grain theft as an anomaly, which scares me, a farmer do death. But history has a way of repeating itself, with the same outcomes.