Um Financially Ruined? I don’t think so.
Crops are insured by the USDA anymore, I’m sure it won’t be easy for them, but a drought is hardly financial ruin for every farmer in America.
We would have plenty if the government quit mandating ethanol.
” “At this time of year,when you look down in a place like Indiana or Illinois,you should see just lush green fields,” Armstrong said. “I saw bare soil.”
I concur, I took a flight out west last week and wondered why all I saw was brown earth.
I'm a city boy so I know little about such things but it sure looked healthy to me.
***The current heat wave — which is spurring comparisons to the catastrophic heat of 1936 — is “out of whack,”***
Really? Lets see. Look at the hottest year dates!
Dallas;
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/fitness/wxclimatology/daily/USTX0327?climoMonth=7
Austin:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/fitness/wxclimatology/daily/USTX0057?climoMonth=7
Tulsa:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/health/fitness/wxclimatology/daily/USOK0537?climoMonth=7
A lot of corn dying in SW Michigan.
Corn is making us all fat. How do you think they get those beef cows so big and fat?
Corn.
Now if we had a broccoli shortage, or a peanut butter shortage like we had a few years back, then we would have a crisis.
That’s funny. Just got back from New Jersey and there are corn fields doing great all over the place.
In fact, little farm stands selling corn all over the place doing great, too.
And we had some of that great New Jersey corn on the fourth of July, and MAN does NJ grow some delicious corn!
The sky is falling!
We’re doomed!
How will the U.S. continue to send the hundreds of millions of tons to other countries then?????
The corn West of Minneapolis looks great this year. “Knee high by the 4th of July does not apply.” It was chest high last week.
And we wonder why majority of Americans are obese, and not very healhy? The obesity and sickness starts on the Midwestern corn fields....
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.
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.
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.
About the only cornfeild I’ve seen this year that looked normal was one that straddles a creek. All the rest around here are yellowing.
Technically ALL corn, an annual plant, “dies” before it is harvested.