Actually its doing fine in some places and not so fine in others.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2904675/posts
Prayer and repentance.
That’s the only cure.
It’s not all dying. Yields are being impacted. Some states much worse than others.
Chicken little alarmists are chasing for blog hits. It’s a nasty addiction.
No corn = no Ethanol. Get ready for $5.00 gasoline this winter.
Dust Bowl II or Born yesterday Journalism?
If this wasn’t happening in a region where Obama had no chance at all to win anything, I’d say we were looking at the next big bailout. The “Corn Hole” bailout. But he probably won’t even bother, seeing nothing but a sea of red on the electoral map there.
This is something that could happen in the old Soviet Union. At that thought, maybe we are the old Soviet Union!
Some years crops are good and some years they are bad. That is normal.
It’s the British.
Corn seems to be doing fine here along the Missouri river valley. Location and irrigation makes a big difference despite the heat and sketchy rainfall.
RIGHT NOW, Corn is $721.25 on the markets (100 Bushels).
The real problem isn’t going to be this fall, it’s going to be NEXT SUMMER as corn stocks deplete, and the feds still require 10% Ethanol in gasoline.
The price of corn (and hence Ethanol), is going to SOAR.
except on late night talk shows, at the EPA, and at the Obama Election Campaign.
Not that it’s the Corn Belt, but I was just driving through the Harrisburg, PA area. The corn in the fields there is dried up from the ground about 1/3 up the stalks. It there isn’t a good rainfall in another week or two, it’s a goner.
Last year Ohio had record rainfall...
I was beginning to think I lived in Seattle.
Ohio cities swamped with record rain in 2011
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/ohio-cities-swamped-with-record-rain-in-2011-1306663.html
CINCINNATI — Ohio has closed out a soaker of a year that washed out annual rainfall records throughout the state.
The National Weather Service says Cleveland in 2011 got more than a foot of rain above its old high mark for rainfall during one year. The city received 65.32 inches of rain last year, compared to the previous record of 53.83 inches in 1990.
Cincinnati had its wettest year with 73.28 inches. That shatters the old record of 57.58 inches, also from 1990.
Columbus and Toledo edged past their previous highs for yearly rainfall. Youngstown got about 54 inches during 2011, more than 3 inches above a record that had stood for 100 years.
looks like El Nino coming which could cause drought in Australia, further hurting grain supplies
What corn is left all has to go into ethanol for fuel. That’s the law. Is a legislated famine entirely unthinkable now? That law will never change except to raise the % of corn in the gas tank.
We can’t do anything about the weather, but we can stop wasting corn on fuel.
Drove through the Texas panhandle last year in late June and everything was burned to a crisp. Not a green shoot to be found in a field. This year, 3 weeks ago, I saw beautiful green corn hip high and being watered by huge sprinkler systems. What a difference a year and some rain makes.