Posted on 09/22/2014 5:36:25 AM PDT by redgolum
New York (AFP) - US corn and soybean crops could break records this year, but for farmers the bounty has a dark side: falling prices and a logistics nightmare getting crops to market.
"It is not an exact science but when we look at the fields, it looks like it is going to be a big crop," said John Reifsteck, a corn and soybean farmer in Champaign, Illinois, a Midwest farm belt state.
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That’s what I was thinking. OH NO! More food!
The horror.
I surmised it was an old bootlegging operation. I must have been insane wandering around like that....alone besides.
My friend owns a truck brokerage company and they can’t find enough trucks to service the loads they have.
It's always something.
They will EAT WHAT IS ON THEIR PLATE or they are GOING TO BED without supper. I have had it up to HERE with their backtalk and insolence. I swear, if their fathers were alive, they wouldn't sass me like this. And! To top it off! I got a call -- AT WORK -- from their teacher. They are sitting in the back of the class throwing stuff and passing notes!
Time to stock up on dehydrated foods...
I used to spend a couple weeks every years 'wandering around' in the jungles in the Yucutan. I was in a area so remote once that I ran into an active archaeological site that was completely vacant of people but all the tents, supplies, electronic equipment and etc were just left there in the open (on tables under the big tent) while they went on Xmas vacation.
I left them a 'Gilroy Was Here' note.
I just took the Jack Daniels distillery tour 3 weeks ago, it was a blast.
“Don’t make me come in there.”
Russia is now a grain exporter, not so much an importer.
Russian Grain Exports Surge to a Record
http://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/grain.pdf
September 2014
Especially since most countries won’t buy GHO.
Always gotta have something to complain about! Jeez!
Don’t most farmers sell their crop in advance on the CME futures board as a hedge against things like this that they can not control. If they have already sold in advance, what does it matter if the current price is lower?
The biggest trucking company Swift is selling equipment because they can't find drivers.
Isn't part of the problem created by a lack of delivery? This might push them into default of that contract.
LOL! If cattle were fed as much grain as some people think they wouldn’t have ANY beef to eat. All the cattle would have died from digestive failure long before going to slaughter.
Corn is particular has been completely destroyed, pricewise.
Nothing is lost from the feed value by ethinol distillation.
The train yards are backed up, too. Not enough truckers either(think a 60 year old woman could learn to drive a truck?), and so, what’s the plan?
And not to mention all the farting going on back there.
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