Posted on 05/21/2019 7:02:14 PM PDT by Western Phil
A cold, wet spring...
Not to fan the flames of panic, but this is how the Little Ice Age started. :^) Thanks Western Phil.
Now I don't have to write that.
What're you doin' in my head ?
Today, in SW PA., I'm hoping for enough good weather to be able to get into my nice, soft, tilled garden and get these things planted !
My wife and I have been weeding the damned thing for about a week (on and off, in between rains) and I don't look into the mirror anymore ...
"Hey look ! ... There's the fool that weeds a weed plot !"
is Chinese pork imported to the US? Is that why it is so inexpensive in the stores?
Pork is the source of the flu virus worldwide isn’t it?
I miss the days when every family had land and a small farm. Fed the whole family with nourishing meals and enough to can for the winter season. Even could help a neighbor or passing stranger if need be.
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in good years...starved in bad ones.
“They are NOT burning food.”
Perhaps not. But instead of planting soy beans or other crops they are planting corn for ethanol. So they could have grown food, instead they are growing stuff to burn. Corn also requires a LOT of water - so taking the water that could have been used to grow food.
I’m guessing though that the ethanol helps the farmers out quite a bit in the market.
My old man would make the comment that the farmers always seemed to get the bad breaks. When the weather is bad, the crops are poor but the market is good. (10 bushels x $10 = $100). But when the crops are good, the market is poor. (100 bushels x $1 = $100).
I’m guessing the ethanol, being a mandated thing for fuel, helps with some of the pricing.
I’d love your input here.
Thanks,
L
They're talking about commodity prices and the impact the trade war is having on them. Soybean prices are the lowest they've been since 2010 and corn is down 20 cents a bushel since the beginning of the year. That's not going to improve soon.
The real LIE is the one you're telling. When you're using land to grow a crop that's not edible to humans and used for ethanol production, you ARE in fact otherwise "burning food."
Land used to produce a crop that's not edible is a complete waste of land and ethanol takes more energy to produce than it creates. It is the most ineffective "fuel" at the pump. Anyone who understands how it's made knows that.
Yes it is, because they are going to get subsidies, so they’ve got nothing to worry about.
“What do we do when all the grain reserves are exhausted?”
Things will get right sporty then.
Thanks for the response. I wish you good fortune.
L
Spoken like a socialist.Who are you to suggest that someone’s land they own can only be used for a purpose you approve of?
Feeding animals is burning food. I get it.
When is the last time you were on a farm?
Truth is socialist? Wow. Aren't you a good little fascist (since you want to get into name calling.)
FTR, I never said a single word about how someone should/must use their land. I simply pointed out the gross inaccuracy in the original poster's logic.
You don't like it? Go run up a flagpole.
You DO realize that the same corn used to produce ethanol and the waste product it creates and then fed to cows has near ZERO nutritional value to cows, don't you? It simply fills their bellies and gets expelled out the other end.
People like you should learn about this subject before engaging fingers to keyboards.
Note that it only takes a few good days to catch up with today’s equipment.
There will still be over 90 million acres in corn, a high number for the last couple decades.
Feh. The country is 243 years old.
We’ve had cold, wet Springs before. We’ll survive.
That’s just a stupid statement.Spent brewer’s grain is 30% protein,has 74% total nutrients and 50% NDF fiber.Those are the FACTS anyone can verify them on the internet.
It cracks me up when the city-dwellers bloviate on conditions out on the farm. Burning food, they say. lolol
We live on high ground here in Central Missouri, so we don't have to deal with the flooding that occurs in the river bottoms. What we did have this time was a long, cold winter, followed by a cold, wet spring. The rainfall has been plentiful, and spaced out such that it has made getting into the field difficult for the guys who are scratching dirt. Just about the time it's dry enough to work the soil we get more rain. Neighbor guy finally got his corn in the ground over the weekend. He started on Saturday and didn't stop until the entire 150 acres was done on Sunday. Then it rained on Monday, and again yesterday, and it's probably going to rain again tomorrow.
I'm pretty sure none of us are going to starve because of it. I don't know a single person that lives on corn.
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