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To: Brilliant
In the face of record high prices for corn farmers are reducing the acreage devoted to corn.

Sure.

I'll believe that.

On the other hand in the face of even higher prices for wheat farmers are ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~? Is this related to corn? Farmers planting more of one crop than another in order to get a better price? That's what farmers do, right?

20 posted on 03/31/2008 6:00:54 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

If the weather in the midwest doesn’t improve soon,there won’t be as much corn regardless.Farmers around here are already switching to shorter maturity hybrids(read that as reduced yield),or switching to beans.And with fertilizer nearing 1000 bucks a ton,I’m hearing more talk of reducing planting or just sitting this year out.


24 posted on 03/31/2008 6:09:17 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: muawiyah
That's what farmers do, right?

As long as there is a dime of government subsidy to be had, but in the case of corn, they have killed the goose that laid the golden egg in many ways. They have driven the cost of fertilizer and diesel so high they can no longer come out and it is a better deal to take the government doll and not do the work.

28 posted on 03/31/2008 6:21:32 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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