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Date:
4/15/2022 8:09:21 AM
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RE: Farm update
Couple of things:
1. I know you're wondering how my interim soybean crop turned out. I say "interim" because, as you recall, I had planned to use the same field to plant soybeans and cotton in alternating years. Well, the soybeans were disappointing. I worked hard and achieved a perfect yield, but all I got was 30-odd-thousand liters from a very large field. I think I made just under $40,000. This is just sad. Not worth the effort and certainly not worth occupying the real estate when cotton is worth far more. Not only that -- I can make $40,000 several times over in a year just from selling grass silage. Let this be a lesson. Soybean riches are an airy dream, a gossamer wisp of hope, a trailer load of sound and fury signifying nothing.
2. I am entertaining second thoughts about forestry. There aren't any actual forests in Elm Creek, but there are big plots of land containing large clusters of trees. They seem to have been planted as a civic gesture to beautify the community. I have no interest in communal beauty, so a plan is beginning to take shape.
One word: furniture.
Yes. I can buy this civically beautified land, lease some forestry equipment, and perpetrate a war crime of deforestation. Not one tree would be left standing. Bird song would cease in Elm Creek. Small animals would heave their refugee rucksacks and weep pitiably as they trudged away from their woodland homes. Not one twig would be left standing, for my new Mordor would be a wasteland of ashes and horror.
But that's all right because all that wood could be transported to my new saw mill, which would generate planed wood for my carpentry shop, which in turn would make pallets of furniture worth many thousands of McDuck bucks.
Why would anyone start a pig farm when they could have their own enormously profitable post-apocalyptic moonscape? People have no appreciation for the value of nature.
