Joining some bad company.

[TOM4CWB]

Braveheart,

Do you think these folks have heard of the internet, Google, or Wikipedia?

Are any of the books really lost to civilization... what exactly did they clear off the shelves... to make room for new books perhaps?

[grassfarmer]

That's probably Harpers thinking Tom - like you not smart enough to realise these aren't "books" or stuff that's on Wikipedia this is raw agricultural research data. Complete and extensive records of all the work that has ever been done there and isn't recorded else where.
Tossed in the garbage by people either not smart enough to understand the implications or people trying to destroy fact based science.

[tweety]

When is the last time any of you went to a library to search for answers and do research on agriculture?

[wmoebis]

This isn't a public library it is the library's of public funded research centers.
Big difference there may not be any backup copies of publicly funded research.
Just like all the records out of the CWB offices. They were not the gov'ts to destroy.

[pourfarmer]

The type of data that was available from that institute was priceless! Years worth of studies, trails, etc. I guess Harper's masters in the AG private sector couldn't have that data/info publicly available for fear it would decrease shareholder value.

[foragefarmer]

Braveheart

Your one to talk, all those so called committees you were on in your earlier days, did you not present papers or did you just collect the pay cheques?

[tweety]

pourfarmer, its all on the web journaled.

[blackpowder]

No one is going to comment on the perhaps wasteful trashing of old research papers being compared to a nazi book burning or a khmer rouge cleansing?
Quite a leap id say.

[sumdumguy]

I guess we don't need any research if it's all found on the web.

[TOM4CWB]

Good Grief...

You guys complaint is kind of like complaining someone healed a lame man on the Sabbath... and are calling for him to be put to death!

Next are you going to call for income tax returns to be held for 50 years... so we can tell what happened back whenever to your neighbour... ?

Published research is great... you must admit it has a shelf life... as methods and genetics change in our production systems!!! I bet if you asked about specific papers of interest to you personally... someone would be glad to give them to you... and let you store them in your library!

Would you ask and expect your children... and grandchildren to read these papers? I Sincerely, doubt this is part of our cultural fabric that needs to be preserved.

Hitler and book burning! Using this rhetoric/comparison; Just shows how weak your complaint actually is.