Posted on 05/04/2011 6:47:32 PM PDT by blam
This is from an alarmist blog.
The sky is falling!! The sky is falling!!
With the dollar dropping, our farmers will switch to selling more overseas... food here will continue to go up in price.
Wheat is one of their most important farm products ~ but there won't be any.
Well...it is alarming news.
Warnings of the CEO of the largest pork producer in the US should be ignored?
There won’t be much corn or soybeans in this country if the weather doesn’t settle down soon.It’s the 4th of May and there is nothing planted yet here in central Ohio.The rest of the midwest is the same-too wet and too cold.
What he means is “higher prices”. Won’t bother me and mine much, but I certainly hope that the Hope and Change voters enjoy them.
We were making humorous comments (at our regular Tuesday night card game) about putting 'smoke pots' out in our gardens.
If this years corn crop is low due to poor planting weather, the price of corn should go up. Shouldn’t that also raise the price of corn ethanol and the gasoline/ethanol blends?
but I certainly hope that the Hope and Change voters enjoy them.
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They don’t sweat the prices after all they pay no taxes, their kids get 2 free meals at school and we both know who is buying the food the morbidly obese mother is eating! Hope and change my butt...
“Its the 4th of May and there is nothing planted yet here in central Ohio.The rest of the midwest is the same-too wet and too cold.”
Same here in southern Wisconsin. I kind of thought they’d at least disk these past two days, but...nothing. There are 700 acres around me just aching to be planted with sweet corn, but the soil is still too cold. And rain again, tomorrow!!
And I should add the CRAPPIEST pork producer. I wouldn't eat that mushy, salt soaked garbage. Foul tasting. I am very lucky to live in a small town with a real butcher shop and pork that comes from smaller, better producers. Otherwise I'd have to quit eating pork.
A couple of years ago I was in a hurry and picked up some Smithfield chops at Kroger to save a little time on my way home, knowing I would be sorry. And we were. My wife and I threw out the pork after eating very little of it. That was some dinner.
Unfortunately, most/all the major grocery chains carry nothing but (in-eatable) Smithfield pork.
And, up the road from me are fields of golden wheat ready for harvest. I've never seen wheat growing this close to the Gulf Of Mexico.
Plus our government blew the levee to flood all of that farmland in Missouri.
This is a 500 year flood. (Which doesn't mean it only happens every 500 years ~ rather, it could happen every year but in 500 years it would usually only go this high).
Among tributaries are the Ohio, the Wabash, the Miami, the Monongahela and that other one eh.
The Corps of Engineers is currently at work figuring out how to STOP THE TENNESSEE RIVER in its entirity.
Soybeans are of secondary interest as a source of food ~ fancy beans are primary, and that Delta country being "saved" (Not Likely) is a chunk of bean country, as is the area they just flooded, as is Mississippi County Arkansas, and Southeastern Indiana, and Western Kain-tuckeh.
This is an incredible disaster for Mexico!
For us it's a quite ordinary disaster.
Catfish supply in North Texas drying up
Restaurants are having trouble staying stocked as rising grain costs drive farmers to close ponds
A combination of cheap imports, high prices for corn-based catfish feed, high fuel costs and, until recently, low market prices for fish has made fish farming a money-losing proposition for many producers, Avery said. Then the recession has kept people from dining out, and much farm-raised catfish is consumed in restaurants, he said.
“Grain prices have gone up so high that it makes growing crops more profitable. We’ve gone through these cycles before, but this is more extreme,” Scott said.
Aside from foreign competition, the near-doubling of grain prices made fish farming unprofitable for many producers, since feed represents 60 percent of costs
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/03/20/2936211/catfish-supply-drying-up.html
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Ethanol subsidies help drain catfish ponds
“Catfish farmers across the South, unable to cope with the soaring cost of corn and soybean feed, are draining their ponds.... Corn and soybeans have nearly tripled in price in the last two years, for many reasons: harvest shortfalls, increasing demand by the Asian middle class, government mandates for corn to produce ethanol and, most recently, the flooding in the Midwest.”
Meanwhile, Congress does nothing about the aspect of this that they could address — agriculture subsidies in general, and ethanol subsidies in particular.
If they don't blow 'em up the fields will be flooded until September!
I went to Safeway today. Bought a pound of Hormel bacon for $7.49. It was on sale.....down from $8.49. As I put it in the fridge, I noticed it was only a 12 ounce package. I think our next bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches will only be lettuce and tomatoes. I noticed many prices are staying the same, but the packages are much smaller. Example: six months ago I could buy a 14 ounce bag of Lay’s potato chips for $3.99. Today I paid $3.99 for 10.5 ounces.
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