As Price of Grain Rises, Catfish Farms Dry Up (food chain)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/business/18catfish.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin


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“It’s a dead business,” said John Dillard, who pioneered the commercial farming of catfish in the late 1960s. Last year Dillard & Company raised 11 million fish. Next year it will raise none. People can eat imported fish, Mr. Dillard said, just as they use imported oil.

As for his 55 employees? “Those jobs are gone.”

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“You focus your resources where you can maximize your profits,” Mr. King said. All the empty ponds will be planted with soybeans and corn, those two commodities for which there seems boundless appetite.
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so there we are

chaos is just around the corner

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