Governor of New York dropped $85,000 on that one.
Posted on 03/31/2008 5:32:46 PM PDT by Brilliant
Libs always wanted to keep the poor “down on the farm” anyway.
Tell me about it. we’ve got a bunch of RINOs/repubs in my state pushing for it because they or their relatives are in the ethanol refining business. Total conflicts of interest.
sw
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.
This will probably end up being a Fimbul Winter as far as fruit trees are concerned ~ but the South will make up for the shortage (except for apricot preserves).
If you get really panicked try fancy beans.
People better wake up. The Feds want to maintain "stable" prices. That means shortages.
The weather may be fine whereever you are but here it’s mega wet with more rain in the forecast.This time last year all wheat had been top-dressed -this year none has,not one acre!
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.
I know that.
sw
A 29.6% drop in wheat futures in 3 weeks is pretty significant, regardless of timeframe.
Higher corn prices will result in more corn production until supply and demand balance again.
Burning food is the stoooopidest liberal idea yet.
Dear Farmer Dean if you really have someone who is going to “sit this year out” please contact me. Of course it needs to be soon as planting time is here (or past or soon to be depending on your location) but I will offer them $1 per acre for a lease (100 acre min.). That’s better than they get doing nothing.
If you still have that issue, perhaps you would be good enough to send it along to Jorge Bush. I think his subscription expired before this issue came out.
Soybeans going down because cool,wet weather encouraging bean planting at the expense of corn. Wheat down due to expectations that crop failures of last years won’t repeat. Corn up due to bean planting up and corn planting down.
I think the coincidence of corn with oil is just that: coincidence.
Governor of New York dropped $85,000 on that one.
I noticed when I fueled up (first time in two and a half weeks) that the regular unleaded was touting up to 90% ethanol with a little green sticker. That crap pisses me off. I’ll look else ware or pay for mid-grade just to stay away. I refuse to contribute to the inflation caused by turning perfectly good food into energy via a multi-stage process that guarantees that fuel is being wasted and strains the wallets of the average person by increasing food prices. The same lie is being told regarding electric cars. First, the energy is likely delivered from a coal burning or natural gas power plant. Second, there is a great deal of energy lost in transmission in the form of heat, sound (note: that buzzing and crackling under the high-tension wires is energy being wasted in the form of both heat and sound) and mechanical conversion which involves both heat and sound. Finally, you dump the energy into an inefficient storage device which once again wastes energy itself charging and then delivering the energy by conversion through the wiring and stators to the drive train to create motion. In the end you get to pay to replace and dispose of a huge toxic battery at about half of the value of the transportation device (car) just to appease the itch in Al Gorical’s pants. All hail Gia and the wonders of stupidity. Real efficiency and love for mother earth is a potato(e)(oe)(oeoeooooooe) cannon custom formed to ones body and 1/4 cup of gasoline. Pour deadly fuel, insert self, tilt at a 45 degree angle for maximum efficient distance. Set to 25 degrees if you only intend to go to wal-mart. Enough.
I’m sure that anyone who chooses not to plant already has some renter lined up to pay the going rate locally.We are not planting corn this year,we intend to concentrate on our horse hay business and wheat.
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