Posted by OneThought on January 30, 2014 at 05:12:00 from (192.182.63.96):
In Reply to: Coal mines posted by TGIN on January 29, 2014 at 19:05:36:
I like coal and it was real good to this area for 60yrs. However at the end of the 80's/90's the guys got jerked around real bad, finally let go and went from making 60k to barely 30k elsewhere. I know the gov't had a lot to do with that. One other thing is I'd say my township lost close to half its good tillable ground. It was technically reclaimed farmable, but reclaimed and something you can plant/harvest soybeans on are 2 completely different things. Guys would have had to dump a bunch of money into it to get it truly farmable, some did. But the problem is they ended up with 60% of the yield potential, nothing in a dry year, many have topsoil rights only. Water goes straight down 80' and there is very little organic matter. So much of it grew up with scrub trees and is essentialy gone for good, along with the farms that were there to begin with. A lot of it is hayed or grazed, but its far from good pasture. I'm not saying that we don't need coal and that it isn't a great economic boom for an area, but there's certainly no going back to what you had before it was mined. I like cheap electricity and I know somewhere has to provide the coal, supposedly the mine is reopening on a much smaller scale next year. As a farmer I'm happy that there are jobs coming for some guys. But I know that the young guys that get hired will get left holding the bag half way through their careers, and we'll lose more farms and ground.
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