Posted on 03/01/2008 7:29:12 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Ping!
So much for soy alternatives. Are they going to burn soy oil too?
But.............but............but.........I thought ALL of the land was going to be ethanol corn.
So now I’m going to have problems getting enough soybean sead.Just great.I had enough problems last fall finding the seed wheat I needed,now this.
The National Farmers Union had a press release with the following to say:
“SASKATOON, Sask.—Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its first projections of world grain supply and demand for the coming crop year: 2007/08.
USDA predicts supplies will plunge to a 53-day equivalent—their lowest level in the 47-year period for which data exists.
http://skepticssa.wordpress.com/category/future/
Could Monsanto and ADM be deliberately reducing the supply of soybean seed to increase the demand for corn seed?
If farmers can’t get their seed,fuel and fertilizer on time,then everybody’s going to suffer.I had extreme difficulty finding enough wheat seed last fall,I’ll start saving some of my crop for seed if I have to.
That was my first thought. They have genetically engineered crops to produce infertile crops to prevent farmers from using some of their own crop as seed the following year. I read a article several years ago that predicted this outcome.
Next, it's the manipulation of base seed crops...higher energy...higher food.
It won't be pretty.
Look for a loaf of bread to be $5.50 in 18 months.
Because of the US deficit spending, we have left ourselves wide-open to global economic manipulation as the dollar declines and OPEC oil producers and global hedge fund giants tighten the noose around the necks of the average American.
Hope you like paying $4.25 / gallon for gas come Memorial Day.
The price of fertilizer is gonna be a killer this year,up about 250 a ton over last year.I hope that folks here don’t blame the farmers when food prices go up,I’m sure not getting rich doing this.Actually I could sell the farm and make more in government bonds even.But I enjoy this so here we go again with a new crop year!
If anybody here bakes their own bread and wants to save some money,I’ll have a few thousand bushels of wheat to sell on or about the 4th of July.
Isn’t all seed hard to come by in the last few years? We always have a hard time getting cotton seed,watermelon, pumpkin and onion seed and it costs 20 times what it used to.
That could be absolutely, but we grow sorghum seed for a large company, we plant it according to their schedule, a month too early, I could go on and on about how incompetent the whole thing is and the paltry yields. If they just let us farm it the way sorghum should be farmed and not by some kind of book interpreted by a few college ag grads who don’t have a clue, they would have seed running out their ears but no...the agronomists sitting in their offices a thousand miles from the farm, know better. The only reason we continue to grow for them is that they pay by the acre, it doesn’t matter what the yield is.
You missed the thread, they already are and a lot of them want to make it so that we can’t export food.
We know that food prices have increased because of fuel costs and that farmers are still taking it in the shorts but they don’t.
Last fall was the first time that I had a problem getting the seed that I needed.Since Becky and I stopped gardening about 10 years ago,a lot may have changed.We are going to restart the garden this year though,I’m sick of the generally poor quality stuff offered in the stores.
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