Posted on 02/01/2011 5:03:46 PM PST by Kaslin
We don’t send alot of meat to Eygpt. We don’t have that many plants that can.
You’ve gotta read the whole piece. They eat wheat over there. Lots of American farmers (from 10% a decade ago, to almost 40% now) have gone from planting wheat to planting corn....for the subsidies.
meh
Pretty much how welfare works - you feed the poor thinking you're doing the right thing, but instead, you're merely feeding your enemy and allowing them to strengthen.
I believe that the ethanol scam was a deliberate attack on 3rd world populations, in keeping with Agenda 21.
They didn’t stop planting wheat to get corn subsides. They stopped because corn is a much higher yield crop that is more tolerant than wheat.
Trust me. My Grandpa hated government money, and had stopped growing wheat long before I was born. The reason? He got tired of losing one in five crops.
If TPTB had to admit ‘inflation’ was present, it would mean unpleasant measures would be required and even more unpleasant consequences for us.
It’s going to happen. The only question is when.
I’ve adopted the attitude that the less I have, the less I have to lose. I’ve been poor before.
Stem rust (Ug99) is a major factor in the ME wheat production difficulties.
Why is it always ‘American’ farmers’ greed (wanting subsidies) that’s to blame? Doesn’t the Middle East have the Nile, the Mesopotamia bread-basket, and all that idle agricultural real estate in Africa that European farmers where run off of? Is it America’s fault those yahoos can’t stop stoning each other long enough to grow a freaking crop or two?
We do not need to directly export corn, or meat, to Egypt to make a deal ~ and the ME is where they invented that sort of thing.
It's one of their art forms.
Someone should tell that to kissinger
If the federal government was not paying farmers to grow corn a lot of the corn land would be producing two crops of wheat each year. Since it cost less to grow.
If the federal government was not paying farmers to grow corn a lot of the corn land would be producing two crops of wheat each year. Since it cost less to grow.
“If TPTB had to admit inflation was present, it would mean unpleasant measures would be required and even more unpleasant consequences for us.
Its going to happen. The only question is when.”
It has already begun here they just don’t report on food/gas inflation anymore but you see it for yourself at the check out and in the reduced packaging.
Let them eat cake or their oil. We should cut off all aid to muslim countries. You can’t buy people into liking you and I think after the billions we’ve given to these ingrates proves that point. Let their idol allah take care of them.
By the time TPTB admits there is inflation, it will be too late.
Are you a farmer?
Again, wheat doesn’t yield as much, and you have failed crops much more often than corn.
And here on FR we often get the popcorn out:)
My daddy was a farmer and yes I live on a farm. Now it is not about yield it is about rerun on investment. If you take out the welfare payments for growing corn, the farmer needs to grow what he can put in the ground the cheapest that will give him the most return. Corn is produce by mostly commercial farmers that lease as much land as possible for the million dollars of equipment it takes to produce thousands of acres of corn. So where is your farm?
Eastern Nebraska, north of Omaha a ways.
Though I think Dad is getting out of it this year, and I am not in a situation where I could go back. Not enough land or money to make a go of it.
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