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Add in an epidemic and you have the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Meanwhile, we are burning up CORN in our CARS!!!!
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Yes it is a very scary thing that a famine could be nearing. Hopefully we can get things squared away before it happens.
Sorry, I had to stop reading here:
“In North America, in excess of 86% of the wheat crop is fertilized, in excess of 96% of the corn crop is fertilized. About 20% of the bean crop is fertilized. The reason for this is that corn and wheat need added nitrogen in the depleted soils where they are grown because as the plants mature they”strip” the soil of it’s nutrients, soybeans/canola are of much lower impact.”
First, fertilizer use is down due to high fertilizer prices.
Crops don’t “strip” the soil of nutrients. This is one of the henny-penny environmentalist loaded words. Plants don’t “strip” nutrients - they use them. If there are nutrients in the soil in excess of what the plant can use given the other growing conditions (soil moisture, growing degree days, pest pressure), guess what? The nutrients are left in the soil. Doesn’t matter what type of plant we’re talking about, they all need NPK and micro-nutrients in varying amounts.
Soybeans don’t merely use less nitrogen - soybeans are a legume, and legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen into the soil. Alfalfa, clover, peas, beans (inc. soybeans), peanuts, etc — all legumes fix nitrogen into the soil. But for maximum production potential, they still need phosphorous and potassium in the proper proportions.
hey! what ever happened to that global warming stuff? how could we be getting an ice age thingy? on a more practical note, flour, and cornmeal can be kept in a freezer for ages to keep out bugs. just so ya know.
It is even more complicated than the author suggests.
Seed licensing is becoming a serious issue. The recent laws concerning plant variety protection have made it a legal nightmare to try and comply with.
Some parts of Texas have what I estimate as 50% crop failure due to the drought this year. And parts of Oklahoma have near 40% crop damage due to late freeze damage.
This will translate to at least regional short supply of planting seed for this Fall’s crop.
You can no longer simply buy seed from the elevator to plant next years crop. It never was a good idea from a quality standpoint, but now there are legal liabilities in doing so that are very serious.
I look for wheat prices to be much higher this fall, after the harvest. Historically the traders understand the supply trends, and few of the producers have storage capability.
This coupled with the financial trainwreck, this will not be business as usual.
Maybe we can get back to natural farming == grass feeding the livestock, using their fertilizer for the crops, etc.
Bring back the glaciers that covered the North American Continents!!!
Only then can true climate peace be achieved!
(I could be wrong)
Maybe we should STOP paying our farmers to NOT grow their crops.
No, I am talking about Agri-Pro.
Monsanto is a player in another crop area, but the strategy is the same. Monopoly.
This translates into much higher food and fiber prices, and many who will do something else instead of risk the legal exposure.
In the past State University research efforts were aimed at helping agriculture produce, now they have been sold out and are helping build monopolies that will ultimately drive operating costs higher.
They are not trying to build a better mouse trap, but running a multi-level marketing system. Costs more.
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