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    Eat more Pasta and Help the Durum Famers

    Eat more pasta it is good for you! Go out and buy some pasta and try to eat it more
    often. When you go out for dinner order pasta. Just say "pass the pasta"!
    Pasta provides a good portion of your daily requirements for iron, magnesium,
    phosphorous, niacin and folate, and is very low in fat. When you choose to eat more
    pasta, you will be helping the farmers that grow durum to produce the pasta. When you
    get this email read it and forward it on to as many people as you can. You
    can even print off a few copies and give it to people you know that do not have email. I
    have some statistics about pasta and durum below, please feel free to
    read this information. Once you have read this email and forwarded it on please go to the
    bottom of this paragraph and click on my web site; I have a counter
    there. I am trying to get a rough idea on how many people are receiving this email.

    My web site

    http://plaza.powersurfr.com/jagtrucking/index.htm


    I am a farmer and we grow Durum on our farm in South Western Saskatchewan, Canada.
    Over the last few years the cost for growing Durum has increased
    substantially, while the amount we get paid per bushel has only slightly increased. This
    translates into the cost of growing it being almost the same as we get paid
    for selling it. Pasta is made from Durum wheat that is milled into semolina flour. A bushel
    of durum wheat (60 pounds) makes enough semolina to produce 42
    pounds of pasta, approximately 210 servings. A farmer that grows durum gets around
    $5.64 per bushel for their Durum. After it is processed into pasta it is worth
    about $42 per bushel. A pound of pasta costs about $1 to buy. One bushel of durum can
    make about 42 pounds of pasta. If you would eat 1 serving of pasta 3
    times a week it would take 70 weeks to eat all the pasta made from 1 bushel of durum.

    There is approximately 1,356,000,000 bushels of durum in the world at this time. Not all
    of the Durum will be of good enough quality to produce pasta. If 75% of
    the Durum can be used, that would produce 42,714,000,000 pounds of pasta. The world
    population is approximately 6,195,000,000. If only 60% of the world
    population eats pasta and if all those people ate 11 pounds of pasta every six months, that
    would use up the world supply of Durum. This would keep the
    demand up with the supply. When the demand goes up, the price goes up for the farmers.
    At the present time it is estimated that the price for #1 durum 12.5%
    protein will be $6.94 per bushel. Of that amount the South Western Saskatchewan
    farmer only receives $5.64 per bushel because we the farmers have to pay to
    ship a product that we produce. The transportation and handling costs are as follows: 92
    cents rail freight, 10 cents cleaning, 27 cents handling, and 1 cent
    inspection and handling. These prices are not affected by the price of Durum. The price
    of pasta would only have to increase 12 cents a pound for the farmer to
    receive $5 more per bushel. This would help the farmers to meet their costs and be able to
    earn a living without having to subsidize their farming business with
    other work off the farm, leaving more jobs for other citizens that do not farm.





    Here is a web site with some statistics about pasta.
    http://www.ilovepasta.org/industrystatistics.html

    You can go to this web site to get nutritional information about pasta.
    http://www.ilovepasta.org/nutrition.html

    The population statistics were taken from this web site, you can go here to see the
    population counter that is updated daily.
    http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw

    #2
    Now I'm just not to sure what durum yields, but it would seem that $5.42/bu. is not too bad! Try growing feed wheat! Of course if you are in southern Sask I imagine the yield sort of sucks so maybe you do need that much money. I can't fault your message as I eat a lot of pasta! Pasta is good if you have the right sauce and a great big T-BONE STEAK with it!!! Got to get my own little plug into this info-mercial!

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      #3
      If you can't grow enought durum to make it pay, turn it back to cow pasture and drive cowman's cattle price down. Better yet create your own little paste plan. 42 dollars a bushel,

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        #4
        Gizen,do you honestly think that if the demand for pasta increased that the farmer would see any benefit from it,or would there just be more money to be made by the processors?

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          #5
          Pasta is my all time favorite food, especially with my own basil on it.

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            #6
            Deb:Nothing like home grown herbs! What other types do you grow? I am a little bit of a gardener. Can't afford the time but still do it.

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              #7
              I've grown the variety of pumpkin called Triple Treat ever since it came out. This is the first year I have not ordered it -- just haven't had time! Triple treat pumpkins are wonderful for pies, jack 'o lanterns and the seed has no hull so you can roast them and eat them without having to spit pieces of wood out.

              I grow various herbs that I use in cooking or to make the house smell nice - rosemary, lavender, parsley, sage - stuff like that. I have horseradish in the garden and so far have been able to keep it under control. I like squash, zucchini, potatoes, beans, peas (for stir fry and podded peas) tomatoes, spinach, swiss chard, garlic (hubby has 14 varieties) and a garden full of native prairie plants and other drought tolerant things. I wonder if I'll have time for all this this year. it seems to be a busy year coming up.

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