The Corn Is Dying All Over America

The Economic Collapse ^ | 7/10/2012 | Michael Snyder

[joe212]

Re: Since 75% of grocery store products use corn as a key ingredient

And we wonder why majority of Americans are obese, and not very healhy? The obesity and sickness starts on the Midwestern corn fields....

[America_Right]

The “Corn Hole” bailout.

Now THAT'S funny!!!

[central_va]

The “Corn Hole” bailout. Now THAT'S funny!!!

Or, as the indians refer to it, maize holing.

[RJS1950]

Seems that way. I think that there are a number of farmers along the river who delayed planting to clean up the silted areas after the floods last year.

[NELSON111]

Amen!

2Chronicles 7:13 If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
V. 14 if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

[Right Wing Assault]

Last year Ohio had record rainfall.

In 2010, I planted a nice blue spruce. In early spring last year it was looking great. Then the rains came and the little guy drowned.

Now everything is crispy dry.

[jim999]

I was wondering.....
Has anybody looked at the relationship of heat/drought damage to whether the crops are GMO?
I would wonder if the frankencorn lost some of its ability to handle real world conditions in exchange for higher profit margins.

[Darnright]

>The price of corn (and hence Ethanol), is going to SOAR.<

So the prices of the vast array of products made with high fructose corn syrup (think Coke, Pepsi, etc.) will go through the roof.

Mayor Bloomberg is rubbing his hands together at the thought.

[listenhillary]

If anything, drought resistance would be a goal of genetic modification. I’m not an corn expert though.

[TSgt]

I lost two pines in the past year. :(

Planted them in 2010....

[Hedra]

We are not having any trouble growing corn in Northern california this Summer.

I picked two ears of corn from my garden yesterday, and my wife and i ate them with some BBQ chicken. MMMM GOOOD!

Now if we could just grow some more conservatives to vote in the future.

[Spktyr]

This. I actually want to see it at $9+ per gallon by October 29, just to make sure people get the message. Pain is the only way people seem to learn or change behaviors, sooo...

[stuartcr]

You mentioned another outcome. How can there be another outcome? There is only one outcome, the one that God knows before it happens.

I have no desire to show you that my understanding is any more or less than yours. I have no understanding of God or His behavior, just beliefs.

I do not make statements about God’s behavior or characteristics like you do. I know I may be wrong. Your statement...’Likewise, neither does God’s foreknowledge of the outcome mean that the other outcome is impossible.’ would lead one to believe that you actually know that as a fact.

[stuartcr]

I do not understand what you are trying to tell me. Could you explain it without the Biblical quotes?

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Even in the absence of a foreknower, it would be true that, for instance, a certain coin flip will end in only one of heads or tails, not both - yet that fact doesn't mean that the other outcome was impossible. Likewise, neither does God's foreknowledge of the outcome mean that the other outcome is impossible.

Do you mean God can be wrong?

No. Whichever the outcome, He's know it forever.

You mentioned another outcome. How can there be another outcome? There is only one outcome, the one that God knows before it happens.

There's the actual outcome, that God knows, and conceivable outcomes. Even after the coin has been flipped and seen to come up heads, we can imagine it having come up tails - that's the "other" outcome.

No offense, but while I’m sure you believe you do, I don’t think you really KNOW anything about God’s foreknowledge.

Naturally my finite brain can't completely understand the infinite God - but you have yet to show that my understanding is any less than yours.

I have no desire to show you that my understanding is any more or less than yours. I have no understanding of God or His behavior, just beliefs.

I do not make statements about God’s behavior or characteristics like you do. I know I may be wrong.

As do I: "Naturally my finite brain can't completely understand the infinite God".

Your statement...’Likewise, neither does God’s foreknowledge of the outcome mean that the other outcome is impossible.’ would lead one to believe that you actually know that as a fact.

That's a fact about logical (non)relationships, not about God per se - you implied a contradiction between foreknowledge and judgment when in fact no such contradiction exists.

[Beowulf9]

I see what you are saying but the claim is ‘all over America’ and evidently that is sensationism.

[stuartcr]

I’m sure you can’t. I just have a hard time understanding what a lot of the quotes I read mean in the context they are used here.

[petitfour]

We bought some wonderful and cheap corn last week in Tucson. I don’t know if the corn came from California or Mexico or Arizona or where. But it sure was good. My f-i-l, on the other hand, says that all the fields around him in Michigan are dead or dying. That is not a good thing.