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To: Thank You Rush
There’s gonna be another lake where Illinois used to be - get out while you still can.
6 posted on 6/13/2019, 3:58:31 PM by amorphous [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies | Report Abuse]
good time ot plant rice-
The there won’t be any corn to make ethanol to put in our gasoline!......................
Drove across Illinois and NE MO twice in April and May. Could have used a pontoon boat in som counties. Very sad.
Here’s the actual story without the SH!T:
Learn to code.
What food crisis?
Less corn means potentially suspending ethanol requirements in gasoline. Who thought it was a good idea to burn food in cars? (Answer: Nixon)
Mabye we need to stop burning corn and soy in our cars. ;)
My neighbor usually plants soy. He planted Corn this year.
Some years crops are rained out... it’s been going on for centuries...
Seems like this is a nonsense story. Illinois hasn’t been hit quite as hard as parts just to the West. Nor do they get the melting snow from the Rockies. But Illinois is about to be clobbered by another week of rain. You can’t plan in the rain.
Sad to mention this but this is not bad news for all farmers. Here in my section of Tennessee(upper highland plain area) our farmland is planted and growing. Looks to be a bumper crop unless summer turns dry. Got the rain we needed, at the time we needed. Got some land that is considered ‘bottomland’ that took a while to dry out but it’s planted and growing.
Prayers for the farmers who cannot plant and will have a hard winter. We had a bad spell bad about seven years ago when it was so hot and dry that the corn we had planted and thriving in late spring was burnt to a crisp by July. It happens.
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.