Accuweather.
Trust but verify.
Good. Less corn to put into our gas tanks...which is the dumbest idea ever.
In reality, we could USE a bad year to get crop prices back up for corn and soybean growers.
And let’s do something that will HELP our Dairy Farmers!
Half our breadbasket is under floodwaters, and they’re predicting a reduced crop yield?
Not much gets past these guys...
Sounds like an opportunity to repeal the ethanol mandate.
It’s gonna get nasty very very nasty.
Marantha!!!
Ping
Hundreds of acres of cropland will not be planted because it is underwater. By the time it would dry enough to get tractors and planters on it, it will be too late for corn to mature before the first freeze.
The Chinese picked a really bad year to boycott American ag commodities.
Here in South Carolina we haven’t had hardly any rain at all in weeks Temps stays in the 90’s and 100’s.
We can send the 4th Mobile Redistribution Army up into Canada and take their stuff.
The UN should be cool with that. They’re into redistribution and such.
Parts of Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri have been hammered by flooding. I-29 between Omaha and Kansas City has been closed much of the last three months. The area is a complete washout. Grain silos burst because wet grain expanded. Buildings destroyed.
Was the tip off the couple million acres of farmland that are underwater? Or the millions of acres not yet planted?
I have three tomato plants and some peppers in my garden and even I understand the mechanics of farm yield.
Don’t we already have vast amounts of reserve corn stored at various sites? I have heard for years that we have literally ‘TONS’ of government cheese nobody needs. Maybe the same applies to other staple foods.
If we do have mucho corn stored away, then bring that cr*p out now. This is the kind of year we will need it, to keep prices from shooting sky high. Maybe the extra corn was meant for Ethanol. Hmmmph! another overrated product.
How big is Texas?
Anybody driving through west Iowa recently could tell you that.
There’s always been good and bad years.
If you claim this is a bad year, you can raise prices.
Remember the drought in Texas a few years ago when ranchers were selling off their cattle at rock bottom prices? Did the price of beef at the grocery store go down? Crazily, it skyrocketed.