<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Ellen,<br><br>I am not a farmer. But I would image that all living things require water. Being that hemp is a living thing, I would imagine it needed water. <br><br>If it takes water from the aquifer, or the snow, I don't think it makes a difference, it is water being taken from our little desert in the Palouse. <br><br>But I am sure all the college students would love the hemp. : P<br><br>Best Regards,<br><br>Donovan<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 3/3/09, Ellen Roskovich <i><gussie443@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Ellen Roskovich <gussie443@hotmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Hemp: was Failed Drug Policies from Nixon to Bush<br>To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com>, donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com, vision2020@moscow.com,
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Here's a dumb question from a city dweller. . . . Are any of our crops (peas, lentils, wheat and timber) actually irrigated with "Palouse water", which I'm guessing Donovan means from the aquifer? I thought all the farmers around here relied on rainfall and snowpack for moisture.<br>
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It would seem like if hemp didn't require any more moisture than what already is being grown here, it would be an ideal crop.<br>
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Just wondering. . . . <br>
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Ellen A. Roskovich <br> <br>> To: donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com; vision2020@moscow.com; garrettmc@verizon.net<br>> From: thansen@moscow.com<br>> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 23:32:38 +0000<br>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Hemp: was Failed Drug Policies from Nixon to Bush<br>> <br>> <br>> It was asked:<br>> <br>> "Would it not cost us valuable Palouse water to grow hemp?"<br>> <br>> Alot less than the water sources required to grow pine or cedar.<br>> <br>> In fact . . .<br>> <br>> Courtesy of "BioRegional: Solutions for Sustainability" at<br>> <br>> http://tinyurl.com/bd8pmj<br>> <br>> <br>> "The environmental benefits of textile, paper and oil production from hemp <br>> have been tested in academic research. A study carried out by the <br>> University of Melbourne found that hemp production for textiles, oilseed <br>> and paper as an alternative to cotton textiles, oil and forestry
would <br>> increase economic efficiency whilst reducing the ecological footprint of <br>> production of these goods by up to 50%."<br>> <br>> Seeya round town, Moscow.<br>> <br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Moscow, Idaho<br>> <br>> <br>> ---------------------------------------------<br>> This message was sent by First Step Internet.<br>> http://www.fsr.com/<br>> <br>> <br>> =======================================================<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>> http://www.fsr.net <br>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> =======================================================<br><br><hr>Express your personality in color! Preview and select themes for HotmailŪ. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/LearnMore/personalize.aspx?ocid=TXT_MSGTX_WL_HM_express_032009#colortheme">See
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