Posted on 02/09/2011 9:29:41 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Maybe the Zero Pop Growth cult will make a comeback from its exile. (it did succeed in some fashion with fewer white college professors producing children)
Wheat acreage has fallen dramatically over the last 20 years, but production has stayed relatively the same.
Most of that went to soybeans, not corn. Cotton and sorghum acreage have also fallen. Corn and soybeans have made up the difference, but at about 2-to-1 in favor of soybeans. Farmers ditched out of wheat because we stopped getting the winter cover of snow. They got tired of losing crops.
Don’t confuse the issue with facts.
I don't remember if that was a dry year or not. It might be that the Asian and Russian economies hadn't tanked yet. They were good customers for a while.
I bet all the farmers wish they hadn't sold their corn at harvest.
Some wise person whose name I cannot come up with said that the only legitimate job of government is to protect the citizens against criminals but inevitably the government USURPS the function of the criminal and becomes a greater danger to the citizens than the criminals could ever be.
I rank that as one of the most clear, concise and BRILLIANTLY STATED TRUTHS ever written. It also seems to rank as one of if not THE most obvious fact that is so simple and so obvious that most people can simply never comprehend it, they keep looking to the government for solutions when a little reflection should tell anyone that the government is not in the solution business, they are in the business of creating problems. Most government is simply a legalized version of the old Mafia “protection” racket. The three most often repeated lies are, the check is in the mail, I am from the government and I am here to help you and...the third one is a little too bawdy to list here.
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Yep. And for some reason you can't get anyone to listen to this fact.
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