Michigan should dominate the agricultural sector

Michigan is second only to California in the diversity of agricultural groups grown.  Michigan should be take this fact to heart when it considers turning productive farmland into industrial and manufacturing sites.   Farmland in California is continuing to burn up, dry up and flood as a result of global warming.  Michigan is feeling the same effects yet our location to the Great Lakes helps to stabilize some of these weather affects.   Fortunately, for Michigan we are located next to the worlds largest supply of fresh water. We are poised to be the breadbasket of the world. 

This is from the MEDC's own website "Farms and food-processing companies throughout the state generate and grow essential products, creating tens of thousands of jobs. In fact, Michigan’s food and agriculture industry contributes upward of $104.7 billion to the state’s economy. Michigan also offers access to a vast and efficient supply chain and logistics system, providing a cost-effective distribution throughout the Midwest, country and across the globe. Thanks to its agricultural diversity, business climate and hardworking farmers, Michigan’s agribusiness industry has a hand in feeding the world."


So why, when Michigan is poised to dominate the agricultural market, is the state pushing to destroy agriculture?   We are seeing the rapid rise in huge solar and wind farms and Mega Sites throughout Central lower Michigan.  The MEDC's plan is short-sided, does not serve the interests of its residents, and in fact will increase the effects of global warming as natural areas continue to be destroyed.    Here's the link to the recent release from the MEDC - claiming that Michigan will dominate the U.S. Battery manufacturing.  And why exactly is this a good thing?