Posted on 07/10/2012 8:56:04 AM PDT by JohnKinAK
I call that “the Big IF.”
Carbs for the Carb throne!
(if you get this i know how you spend way too much money ;) )
The country has always gone through these too much rain/too much heat/just right cycles. Has nothing to do with God or immorality. It's called a weather cycle.
You think it’s punishment?
This is something that could happen in the old Soviet Union. At that thought, maybe we are the old Soviet Union!
“It’s fair to say not all are dying. But here in Indiana, most of the corn crop south of Kokomo and north of Bloomington is gone. Farmers have already turned over the fields in a lot of cases. No corn is taller than about 3’ around here (not knee high by 4th of July). In most years, corn is 6’ tall by now. I know of one area within 5 miles of me that has some green crops that have not yet sprouted tasles.
If IN is any indication of the rest of the midwest, it’s pretty bad.”
The corn I’m growing in KY, all one billionth of an acre of it (lol), is about 3 feet high and any ears are no more than 3 inches in diameter and no more than 4 inches long.
Some years crops are good and some years they are bad. That is normal.
I was out in NE Iowa last week and the corn was turning that silvery green. Not good at all.
B-I-L has half his farm planted in corn and he’s worried.
Was doing some planting for my mom in her garden and was digging down a foot. The “black” earth was gray and dry as a bone.
It’s the British.
2-3 years ago we had so much corn, the farmers did not know what to do with it. Amazing how people pick up Biblical prophecies over normal weather cycles.
Rain might help...
Corn seems to be doing fine here along the Missouri river valley. Location and irrigation makes a big difference despite the heat and sketchy rainfall.
RIGHT NOW, Corn is $721.25 on the markets (100 Bushels).
The real problem isn’t going to be this fall, it’s going to be NEXT SUMMER as corn stocks deplete, and the feds still require 10% Ethanol in gasoline.
The price of corn (and hence Ethanol), is going to SOAR.
except on late night talk shows, at the EPA, and at the Obama Election Campaign.
Not that it’s the Corn Belt, but I was just driving through the Harrisburg, PA area. The corn in the fields there is dried up from the ground about 1/3 up the stalks. It there isn’t a good rainfall in another week or two, it’s a goner.
I detest the ethanol program but would hate it less if they used a non food such as saw grass. At least we have a growing number of stations with ethanol free premium. A Holiday station rep reported a 7 cent a gallon incentive to sell it. Can’t you see the savings? I can’t either.
Last year Ohio had record rainfall...
I was beginning to think I lived in Seattle.
Ohio cities swamped with record rain in 2011
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/ohio-cities-swamped-with-record-rain-in-2011-1306663.html
CINCINNATI — Ohio has closed out a soaker of a year that washed out annual rainfall records throughout the state.
The National Weather Service says Cleveland in 2011 got more than a foot of rain above its old high mark for rainfall during one year. The city received 65.32 inches of rain last year, compared to the previous record of 53.83 inches in 1990.
Cincinnati had its wettest year with 73.28 inches. That shatters the old record of 57.58 inches, also from 1990.
Columbus and Toledo edged past their previous highs for yearly rainfall. Youngstown got about 54 inches during 2011, more than 3 inches above a record that had stood for 100 years.
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