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- Subject: Kondratieff and other cycles
- From: Craig Cramer <cdcramer@clarityconnect.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 12:59:56 -0400
- Newsgroups: farming-connection
- Organization: SUNSITE
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- Xref: ladybird.oit.unc.edu farming-connection:26
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:43:19 -0500 From: "Michele Gale-Sinex/CIAS, UW-Madison" <gale-sinex@aae.wisc.edu> Subject: URLs/Kondratieff and other cycles Howdy, all-- Because I was standing in the Pacific Ocean on Friday afternoon, I did not post URLs Of The Week. Last week I was interested in Kondratieff and other cycles, based on a conversation with a Wisconsin small grain farmer. I have a question, then some links. Is there anybody on SANET who has this as an interest, and sees particular applications of long wave cycles to sustainable ag? I used to be an avid reader of /Barron's/ (and still read the /Left Business Observer/), so I have a (very rudimentary) sense of this stuff in the realms of economics...but what about agriculture? What about sustag in particular? Does global climate change fit here? Any observations, focusing, or musings would be welcome. Some URLs, for those of you who are interested.... Foundation for the Study of Cycles links to other sites http://www.pond.com/~cycles/links.htm This link of theirs: http://www.pond.com/~cycles/research.htm includes Herschel's early 19th century observations on the fluctuating prices of wheat...i.e., correlating solar energy and wheat production. Caroline or William...it doesn't say. Somebody at the U. of CT put this list of links up: http://gopher.uconn.edu/~jpa94001/harmony.html One of them is a "planetary cycles and soybean prices" list which I haven't been able to get to work. I don't know who the hell Ray Tomes is--he seems a lot like my ex-father-in-law, a very bright man with wide ranging interests in the sciences whose ideas I often found defied categorization but challenged and stretched my thinking--but here's his Web site on Cycles in the Universe: http://kcbbs.gen.nz/users/rtomes/index.htm Here's the Mt. Wilson Observatory HK project Sunspot Site: http://www.mtwilson.edu/Science/HK_Project/Maunder/index.html This was an intriguing and...strange...search. It turned up everything from the Federal Reserve Bank of NY on economic cycles in lending to stuff on "fractals and crop circles," as excogitated by a man who signs himself the Rev. Philosopher-King of The First Church of the Divine Otis Redding. Who as you know, died in a Madison lake. Otis, that is. Ruminating, as is appropriate in America's Dairyland, I wish you peace michele <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Michele Gale-Sinex, communications manager Center for Integrated Ag Systems UW-Madison College of Ag and Life Sciences Voice: (608) 262-8018 FAX: (608) 265-3020 http://www.wisc.edu/cias/ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you knew what life was worth, you would look for yours on earth. --Bob Marley
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