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Price of Field Corn at an All-Time High
WHAG-TV via MSNBC ^
| 6/8/2011
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Posted on 06/09/2011 8:23:00 AM PDT by Qbert
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To: Free Vulcan
I’m not sure of your motive but don’t call it “value added” when the govt is subsidizing it. We have been selling grain overseas for a long time. This spike in corn is something else. The govt subsidies - over a dollar a gallon for ethanol - has thrown this way out of balance. Perhaps you are a friend to the farmer who rationalizes the good money of taxpayers going to make farmers rich, maybe not, but you don’t really have a standing here to lecture.
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:08:45 AM PDT
by
discipler
(How's that 'hope and change' working for 'ya? - RL)
To: Qbert
An average vehicle consuming gasoline which contains 10% ethanol removes as many calories from the food chain in a year as it would take to keep two people alive for that same year.
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:19:41 AM PDT
by
LOC1
To: Qbert
We Need More Ethanol Subsidies!
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:29:03 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Gaffer; All
To: Cold Heart
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:36:22 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Qbert
Just remember this pal, The price of fertiliser, seed corn, Diesel fuel , they are all at record prices too, and you cannot raise the corn without the other expenses.
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posted on
06/09/2011 9:42:55 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Venturer
Thank you for being a voice of reality.
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posted on
06/09/2011 10:05:18 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(Some of us still 'hold these truths to be self-evident'..Enough to save the country? Time will tell.)
To: Qbert
Evil windfall profits from Big Corn to be taxed?
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posted on
06/09/2011 10:46:01 AM PDT
by
Only1choice____Freedom
(FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
To: Qbert
Just another thing that happened to affect the corn prices. There will be no corn from Texas this year. We were coming back from east of Austin and the corn there is less than four feet tall, and not one mature ear in sight.
Drought Monitor
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posted on
06/09/2011 10:50:14 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(zero hates Texas and we hate him back. He ain't my president either.)
To: Venturer
“Just remember this pal, The price of fertiliser, seed corn, Diesel fuel , they are all at record prices too, and you cannot raise the corn without the other expenses.”
Hey, I’m just the messenger!
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posted on
06/09/2011 10:51:29 AM PDT
by
Qbert
("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
To: Qbert
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posted on
06/09/2011 11:34:34 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: rarestia
To: Qbert
Dayton Cargill bid line
1-800-448-1285
Corn closed Thursday july delivery $8.30
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posted on
06/09/2011 4:22:28 PM PDT
by
griswold3
(Character is destiny)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Gosh, it's almost as if the 2011 planting season is recently underway. And the price of fuel, and petrochemicals, has been high and getting higher during the Zero regime.
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posted on
06/11/2011 7:55:02 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Venturer; EternalVigilance
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posted on
06/11/2011 7:59:35 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Qbert; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; cindy-true-supporter; ...
"This is the ultimate high," says Eddie Mercer, President and Owner of Eddie Mercer Agri-Services Inc. "The most time we've ever sold corn is maybe in the $5, but never in the $8 range."So you're saying 1 bushel of corn will get you across the Bay Bridge in 2013???
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
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posted on
06/12/2011 1:22:23 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Obamao makes like Blagojevich to Richard/Bill Daley.)
To: Gaffer
Go figure. Fed is giving farmers subsidies to grow it for Ethanol so that the ethanol can ruin gaskets, O2 sensors and what not to artificially pump-up/replace some gas [badly]. If I could find gas without it, Id always buy it. We can get it around here. And we've learned our lesson about using it for the lawn/garden equipment, but can't afford it for driving.
It makes absolutely no sense to me, but when we went by one of the places we know that sells it this afternoon, the price was $4.19 a gallon, and the ethanol added stuff was $3.53.
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posted on
06/12/2011 8:05:50 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
To: Arrowhead1952
Just another thing that happened to affect the corn prices. There will be no corn from Texas this year. And if there is no significant rain soon there will be no corn from Eastern Virginia and the entire DelMarVa peninsula. We're not in as bad shape as you folks in Texas, but it is getting there. If we don't get a major rain event before the end of the week, there will be no corn crop from my county. Both sweet and feed corn are pretty much toasted at this point.
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posted on
06/12/2011 8:19:22 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
To: Qbert
This thread is leaving me stunned.
WHERE are the posts about ‘paying farmers not to plant’?
Surely they can’t be a thing of the past?
If they are, why isn’t everyone rejoicing?
To: Gabz
If we don't get a major rain event before the end of the week, there will be no corn crop from my county. Corn is not the only crop that is going to hit our pocket books. I heard a news story the other day that said Texas produces over 50% of the US cotton, and almost all the cotton farmers haven't planted one seed due to the drought. Look for cotton products to increase in price by winter.
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posted on
06/13/2011 5:42:09 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(zero hates Texas and we hate him back. He ain't my president either.)
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