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Posted on 06/18/2019 10:24:54 AM PDT by amorphous
I don’t think there is insurance for crops not planted just as there is no insurance for crops stored on the farms that are destroyed, as in the Nebraska floods.
Same thing up here in southern Ontario.
Some farmers have managed to get their corn planted, at least on part of their fields, but it is way behind where it should be.
Others have/had fields that looked more like lakes, we’ve had so much rain this spring. Even the ducks and geese that try to lay eggs in the catch pond behind my house have been flooded out repeatedly. There’s green mold/moss/fungus growing on my back deck, it’s been so wet. I feel like I’ve been living in Portland or Seattle this spring.
Yes but when it comes after so many bad price years it may be devastating. NAFTA and all our bad trade deals has really hurt US agriculture.
It will be eventually. First comes the rain then the snow then the ice.
West Texas is turning green. If this keeps up we might have actual trees. Lol.
Ethanol production just uses the starch out of grain (corn typically) to make ethanol.
The remaining byproduct, Distillers Grain (DTS) contain fat, protein, fibre, phosphorus and sulfur and are roughly are three times as concentrated in DTS than in the original grain.
Cattle feeders mix that with ground cornstalks or other roughage. It makes great cattle feed.
More ethanol does not mean less food on your table.
By the way, I don't raise cattle or have anything to do with the ethanol industry. I am a Soldier and I've been to the middle east twice. If it means less oil from overseas, I'm all for it.
No more wars for oil.
Its called plant prevent insurance but its expensive. You can buy storage insurance on grain but I bet most people don't. This years flood are unprecedented.
Sitting inside today in mid Nebraska because its pouring again and supposed to rain all night and more on Thursday, Friday Sat.
Way to wet for any field work but I don't farm, just live in farm country.
There is still huge snowpack in Wyoming and Colorado and both those flow through Nebraska to the already overfilled Missouri river.
Ethanol is a subsidy, and worse it is just a horrible fuel. Consumes huge amounts of water to produce. I get that the byproducts are reuseable.
Agree - no more wars for oil.
However - no more subsidies for voters (big agra) in farm states either.
That’s why all the folks on Rocky Top get their corn from a jar?
IMO, we are indeed experiencing a climate change; not due to man, but to a normal earth cycle.
Since we exited an ice age about 12,000 years ago, according to most scientists, we may be entering a new one; given that interglacial warm periods last about 12,000 years, from what I understand.
If so, it will become increasingly colder and wetter for most of the U.S., for years to come - about 100,000 give or take.
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If you believe rooters is SH!T free, stay away from air handlers, brownbob.
The Rothschilds only sold it in '08 to some other nefarious sort.
Trust the plan - but verify.
At point is HFCS extracted?
Lol, and crawfish after harvesting the rice. It's crop rotation, Louisiana style.
“Would be n ice if there were crops they could plant for times like this...”
They can’t get tractors out in the mud. Can’t til mud. What besides rice grows in mud puddles? Regular crop seeds will rot.
Yes farming is risky, and I have compassion for all the farmers who work hard for our benefit, and to support their families. Just one question, Illinois is democrat lead top to bottom, I am more than certain that the politicians in Illinois will use this crisis to get “help” for the “farmers”, and then most of the money will go to general funds of the state and counties. Remember never let a crisis go to waste. California does it with the funds that are supposed to go to irrigation infrastructure, a few years ago I read that less than 20% went into long and short term irrigation infrastructure, the rest went into the general fund of the state.
Yep. The science behind the ice age is fairly solid. But cannot yet explain what ends the glacial or cold period. Once you are iced up, you really should stay iced up.
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