if u read the article he explains this
Just read the article. He puts algore to shame with the number and extent of crop related disasters, but if you were a farmer you would recognize that a lot of the things he describes (hail damage, drought, tornados, etc.) happen somewhere in the country every year. I would hold off concluding that 2009 was an unmitigated crop disaster until the real numbers are in. I thought the crop would be short here in east central Illinois, but the corn piles at Anderson’s are as big as they have ever been. The harvest was way late and the grain had high moisture content, but there were lots of bushels per acre.
Read the article? I’m beginning to think there is a phobia to Freepers reading entire articles, LOL.
Although I’ve been guilty myself.