Next. Progressives push for oxygen consumption regulation. Use model in Totall Recall movie.
According to Joe Bastardi, the American corn crop is going to be excellent this year.
So , Kruschev was just 90 years ahead of his time.
3 words:
Ogallala
Acquifer
Idiot
I’ve never seen such good looking corn as I have this year, and I ain’t no spring chicken.
Corn is already selling at or below the cost of production. How will that work out long term?
Actually, corn was introduced into the American Midwest from hotter, dryer climates to the southwest, as the spread of pre-Columbian ‘mother corn’ cuture indicates. Milo or sorghum has the same nutrient profile as corn and is happy in hotter, dryer areas.
:: because of anthropogenic climate change ::
See muh tagline...
We already have too much corn, as proven by market prices.
BTW, do you recall the original reason for using EtOH in fuel back in the hazy, lazy days of Jimmuh? It was to help over come the OPEC embargo by “extending” the available volumes of gasoline.
Now that we have all the gasoline we need (albeit at high prices) and without skipping a beat, EtOH is now said to be an “oxygen” supplement reducing certain tail-pipe pollutants.
EtOH addition isn’t going away and will only increase.
The problem this growing season is getting out into the fields because of flooding rains across the Plains. Don’t these people keep up with the weather?
And yes, quit requiring ethanol that cuts food supply, cuts miles per gallon engine efficiency, and increases engine life and we will have more than enough corn.
In full sun a cornfield will deplete the CO2 to nearly zero. Corn and other C4 plants evolved due to the relatively recent CO2 starvation on the planet. Corn will obviously grow better with more manmade CO2, the only bad thing is that C3 weeds will also be more competitive.
Probably an engineered crisis anyway. For some reason, all the fields near my town that are usually corn fields grew wheat this year. Even one that is used for hay and another that grew sunflowers grew wheat this year.
Right... corn uses the C4 photosynthetic pathway, which functions at higher temperatures where other plants shut off photosynthesis.
The largest provision of water for the Midwest is from the Oglala aquifer (the big circle in the middle of the map.)
http://theparagraph.com/wp-content/articles/post109/us_uncon-semi.gif
Importantly, the fruitcake Ted Turner has tried very hard to buy up every square inch of land over the aquifer, likely for a nefarious reason, like turning it over to some eco-nut group to put off limits to farmers when he dies.
http://i.imgur.com/nAmQYkE.jpg
However, assuming that he is defeated in his quest for ruination of Americas farm belt, and problem and a solution have emerged about the Oglala.
That is, that close to a century of farming has reduced the fixed amount of the glacially created water in the aquifer, so that it is starting to dry up in its shallower reaches, such as in Texas.
So, to insure plentiful water in the aquifer, there is an idea to create a man made river from Canada, through North Dakota, to South Dakota and the northern edge of the aquifer, with the intent to pump that water underground into the aquifer.
Corn yields have done nothing but increase, and the recent rains across the central plains states will raise the yield even higher. I have the chart of corn yields, but it’s on my computer and I’m on my phone.
We are burning food for fuel?
Who would have known.
Gee...the last time it was AGW-increased CO2. They must’ve figured out that CO2 ‘helps’ agriculture and chose to be equally ignorant by doubling down in demonstrating they know nothing about agriculture at all, let alone corn...
I live in California's Central Valley. Water shortages to farmlands are the result of horrible water management policies from liberal politicians who want to appease environmental political pressure groups who have no realistic grasp on environmental issues nor even the tiniest hint of mercy for the lives of the farmers they are ruining. We let most of the water we could irrigate the fields with just flow out to the sea unused by anybody.
>> The scientists said growers in the mid-west could lose as much as 15% of their yield within the next 50 years.”
Science is political.
