Posted on 05/25/2019 8:32:41 PM PDT by Windflier
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Total Catastrophe For U.S. Corn Production: Only 30% Of U.S. Corn Fields Have Been Planted – 5 Year Average Is 66%
No corn for food? Plant potatoes, tomatoes, string beans. :)
We will not have enough ethanol! Oh noes! The planet will die! /s
China isn't buying pork, corn or soybeans right now because of the trade war so farmers are hurting but if grain prices would double it would help out the farmers and every other ag related business and that all trickles down to other businesses in small farming communities.
I knew to expect a wiseass, but not this early in the thread .. LOL
Seriously though, corn derivatives are in nearly all processed foods today. A severe shortage in the normal crop output is going to impact food prices like nobody's business.
That was one of my first thoughts. Is there no way to drain or pump the fields?
Eat more rice..........
They’ll get it in. Wont be long duration corn though so production will fall off.
They got till last of June. But, all the river bottoms will most likely not be planted at all.
Stop putting corn in our gas tanks. Problem solved.
Probable at about 1% or less in my area.
Some of the most productive row crop land in the country that doesn’t require irrigation
Farmers are a bit...”irritable” right now. To say the least.
We need a good 3-5 days of perfect drying weather and they will still be planting around standing water
Seed corn and beans won’t germinate in mud
they rot first
Its called field tile. And there has to be a place downhill to let it run.
Very expensive to put in.
Most of the hills/hilly grounds are planted. Its the lowlands and level grounds that arent.
Most of Oklahoma and Kansas are under water.
“No corn for food? Plant potatoes, tomatoes, string beans. :)”
And how do you propose they plant those things if they can’t get into the wet fields to plant corn?
You may be right about that. The latest article I could find on US corn reserves is from September 2018:
“Drowning In Grain”- Reuters Special Report on the Global Grains Glut
Trump should declare a national emergency and commandeer Pelosi’s vineyard for corn planting. Transcropping, yeah, that’s the ticket.
They haven’t invented a boat pulled planter yet. River bottom farmers will probably go to soybeans. The Missouri River is 6’ or so above flood stage at StJoseph MO and even if the ground was clear of water that ground dries slow. I’m guessing it’s not much better on the Mississippi. Tough year unless you’re farming above the bottoms.
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