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"I appreciate your concern Jef, honestly, but you don't actually know the terms of either our leases or the debt incurred by the young farmer.  You may think you do, but from your comments it appears to me that you don't.…"

"I would say both parties to a loan share in the risk and the blame for any downside.  And by using non-debt financing (full equity), Farmland LP is designed to tolerate downsides better than debt instruments.     And we can both…"

"I consider Jef to be a dear friend so, honestly, to have him vigorously come out in public against my work is a bit hard to take.  Still, I believe I know where he is coming from and I think it would be a worthwhile exercise to take up his…"

"Hi Wendy, I haven't heard about that book but am familiar with the tragedy North Korea went through.  Might be a good read for me.   You are right to see that there are bigger, deeper, more important than money issues here.…"

"Now I will respond to Biff.     Sorry it wasn't clear where we were focused geographically.  The SF headquarters exists because it is a center of finance and where my business partner, Craig, has historic roots.  It is…"

"I am here a bit late in the conversation but let me start with Bill's from Feb 3.    I did have a nice conversation with Steve Shields.  He confirmed that we'd be eligible AND he confirmed that we have no chance to win.…"

"Is the WAC competition a venture fund competition where the prize money also equals investor ownership in the company? We would be interested if that meant funds went to buy farmland through the Limited Partnership, but not if it meant part…"

"I'd like to point out there there are many different lenses through which to view food security. The USDA, for example, sees it completely as an economic issues, as in ability to pay for food. Homeland Security worries about terrorist acts…"

"My phone number is 541-740-8168. email is jbradford@farmlandlp.com web site is www.farmlandlp.com Slow Money Alliance recently completed their review of my company and it met with approval."

"Here's a good article on the issue from an Oregon perspective: http://www.hpj.com/archives/2008/nov08/nov3/LackofUSDAfacilitieshampers.cfm"

"Hi Jef, There's a distinction between types of slaughter businesses. The key is whether it is licensed for resale or not. If you buy an animal "on the hoof" you may kill it yourself, or hire somebody to do so, but unless it is done in…"

"I didn't know about Andrew Martin "leaving the area." Is he actually planning to sell the Bald Hill property, not just giving up on the processing center? One way to do meat processing that could be interesting to study (given permit…"

"Hi Folks, Check out this video from Slow Money Alliance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDoipQt3whU It is short, well done, worth the time to watch and pass on. Asks a great question: "Where does my money go?""

"Here's an article in Reuters you all might find interesting: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64233320100503 My company is similar in some ways to the ones described in that we buy land from pooled investment capital. The differences are…"

"More related to Jef's comment re. "massive amounts of money which makes up the bulk of the wealth which is actually ill gotten gains, digital made up faux money, taxpayer funds payed out (or promised to be paid out from) to the financial…"

"Well, this is why I work to have local investors. In an ideal world, we would have the pension funds and university endowments of the local institutions actually putting their money into their community rather than those horrible financial…"