Posted on 05/25/2019 8:32:41 PM PDT by Windflier
The armchair farming experts have the answer. Just plant the corn an inch above ground so the seeds don’t get too wet.
The east produces massive amounts of grains too. Plus corn/grain goes to three places, domestic consumption, exports and ethanol. Well screw the exports and reduce the ethanol. So have you checked grin futures?
Makes me sick seeing Republicans asking for welfare.....What about free markets and 'supply and demand'?
“Food prices are going to go through the roof by August.”
Maybe we could skip the ethanol in our gas this year.
Given that 1 inch of rain over a square mile is approximately 17.4 million gallons of water, finding a place for it all to go is challenging.
$2.00 a foot to tile out drainage. My Dad has 500 acres in Minnesota. All been tiled out for decades.
I’m headed to Oklahoma and Arkansas on the 5th. They need to get rid of this tornado crap before I leave. That’s what I told my family that lives there. Tornados scare the crap out of me.
Corn has no technology to grow quicker or in cooler climate.
It’s a plant thing.
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I remember Ag Tech Stations (or something like that) back in the 60s in Illinois. They developed breeds for a variety of conditions.
There are 90-day varieties. There are cooler weather varieties. Not just for corn. Last couple of years, the people I know who grow commercial tomatoes were selling a 64-day heirloom called Berkley Tie Dye. Delicious and available way earlier than other varieties.
BTW, barley was a staple in Europe during the last Minimum. It is very versatile. I don’t know if it yields enough for animal feed, but it has a lot of uses for humans.
Plants have been engineered for centuries. Today, it done technologically, but humans have bred plants for adverse conditions probably since the dawn of agriculture.
Seriously though, corn derivatives are in nearly all processed foods today. A severe shortage in the normal crop output is going to impact food prices like nobody’s business.
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First of all, Snyder is a professional catastrophist.
Second: If there was a whiff of real shortages, the prices would already be showing it. I was shopping yesterday. First time locally in a couple of weeks and I saw $3/lb rump roast in a medium-price point store when I paid $4/lb just 2 weeks ago at Aldi. My small town is always more expensive than the stores 50 miles away in the larger city. I saw (and bought) other foods for less. Keep in mind this is a holiday weekend, the meats I bought were not on advertised special and I got good prices for thick cut strip steak and spareribs, too.
I have noticed a scarcity of red leaf lettuce, though.
Potatoes are full of nutrition and have so many uses, it is a chore to list them all. They can be container grown
Third: Anyone paying out the nose for processed food could switch to unprocessed ingredients and cook from scratch. YT is full of videos for those who don’t know how.
Fourth: Really concerned? Buy now and store. Prepping isn’t just for the final SHTF. A few hundred dollars today will pay for itself if there is really a future shortage.
Fifth: Last year, the media was complaining about the lack of storage for corn. It’s always something.
“Sunspot minimums bring famines.”
https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/what-can-you-and-yours-expect-in-a-grand-solar-minimum/
Will most people will, not too long from now, pray fervently for global warming?
yes and no... there’s 90day corn and then there’s 120day corn
they can still get in 90day for awhile yet
Bitch because its hot. Bitch because its cold. Bitch because its raining too much. Bitch because its not raining! Bitch because President Trump is Making America Great Again............
When will the idiots STOP!!??!!
Kansas and Nebraska are flat, flat, flat. Dams and spillways are at 75-80%. Where we gonna pump it to?
6” over flood stage submerges 3/4 of the state!
Just curious...have you ever been to Tanzania? I have. And I hope you'll accept that the things you can see there are of breathtakingly tragic proportions.
One of the few things that separates us from countries like Tanzania is that we're able to feed ourselves.
Do you catch my drift?
Plant potatoes, tomatoes, string beans
Must not be a farmer. Midwest farmers have no machinery or expertise for for growing these & and there is no chance you would eat a significant percentage of any grown.
I’d say to myself “so *that’s* where my Corn Flakes come from!”
Maybe a little over 20 years ago my brother toured the Kellogs plant & learned that their total supply of corn for corn flakes came from some really small acreage. It may have been as little as 1 square mile.
As for barley being good for animal feed. I sprout it in trays to feed my laying hens in Alaska. Way cheaper than laying pellets and the chickens ignore the pellets for the sprouts.
Cut my winter feed from 36 bags to two pellets and two bags of barley. Fodder is amazing feed.
https://www.agweb.com/mobile/article/big-pork-purchase-is-just-a-taste-of-what-china-needs-to-buy/
Second largest purchase of US pork ever by China, and more purchases coming.
China is going to pay a high price if we don’t plant more corn LOL!
I should have responded earlier to the other dozens before you scolding me about my comment.
Apparently not many noticed the smiley face I put at the end of my post. Was trying to be funny, not totally serious.
But I will say how sad it is in a nation such as ours with millions and millions of acres of land, that there would be any kind of scare such as this corn shortage. As I said to someone else, there is enough farmland just in the southern states alone to feed the entire U.S. population with vegetables. But modern life with its corporations-farming and global markets has turned a rainy season into a corn-scare and more high food prices. Really sad.
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