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Wheat lobby is important

With all due respect to Hal Patton and his responsibilities related to the Lilac Parade, I would ask just one question: If your family was hungry, could you set this issue aside?

World population is now at 7 billion, with the projection that the food supply will need to double within the next 50 years. Eighty percent of the increase will come from new technology. At present, 43 percent of the world population eats for $2 per day or less.

Wheat growers from Washington export over 85 percent of their product, and will play a critical role in meeting the future food needs while providing a stable economy here at home. A reconsideration is in order to the existing Lilac Parade policy for wheat growers, and all others who lobby.

We should hope that the wheat growers’ lobbying efforts are successful.

Jim Fitzgerald

Cheney

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