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OTOH I've never known a 40 hour a week farmer, or one that didn't work hard. Or one that got filthy rich either.

Veal of corn

Last month when i came home around WACO the corn was between knee and hip high.

The cotton around here has just started it's growth spurt.

Next week it won't look like the same plants.

the anethesiologist was quite the knockout. -- I just wanted you to know that bit of cleverness did not go unnoticed or unappreciated.

Food corn or gasoline corn?

Lack of corn is bad news for pigs and deer. Hasbeen

It's all food for something.

People.

Cattle.

Cars.

Yep.

It was feed corn.

The point being missed here is that vast swaths of the midwest corn belt (that produces the most corn and soybeans) are flooded out this year. Land is extremely wet. Are there some areas around the country doing well? Sure. But those areas don't produce the high percentage of overall production being discussed in the midwest grain belt.

There will be less overall production this year for corn and soybeans, at the least. We are past the crop insurance and prevent plant dates everywhere. Even if corn or beans are planted now and flourished (which is unlikely), they cannot produce as high of yield due to the shortened growing season.

Will there be a famine? I highly doubt it because the USA keeps commodity stockpiles for just such occasions. But as the stocks are drawn down the prices go up, even if there is plenty of product available.

Hay is in short supply in many beef-finishing regions as well this year, so there is a good chance that beef will go up by next year also.

And don't even take a gander at "African swine fever" if it gets over to the Western hemisphere.

Corn should be eaten or drank not burned.

we may have to switch to basic foodstuffs which include relative greater amounts of fiber.

i understand the germans were known to eat bread made out of wood dust.

just thinking that the hdwd sawdust was probably better than the pine?

anyways, there'll be plenty of food, but yes prices could climb.

does ADM - archer, daniels, midland still do business?

Eating or drinking soy products has been implicated in feminizing men, as in shrinking lower parts and swelling boobs. A medical doctor lady we are friends with said that soy milk gave her a lot of relief for menopause symptoms. I try to avoid corn because of the carbs but I for sure avoid soy and don't use any soy based feed for my bulls.

Soy is terrible for people in general. It’s good for farmers and fixes nitrogen but other than soil restoration it’s not something that should be ingested in large quantities. Unfortunately soy is found in damn near everything anymore.

We feed our chickens Scratch and Peck feed. It’s soy free and organic seed. My wife works with a lady that loves eggs. She ate several eggs everyday and eventually developed an allergy to the eggs. She’d get nauseous and have abdominal pain after eating eggs so she stopped eating them for several years. My wife brought her a half dozen one day and told her to try our fresh organic eggs. She tried them and didn’t have any symptoms so she bought some from the store and the abdominal pain came back. She can eat our eggs but not the crappy ones from the store, ours don’t have any soy and that seems to be the cause of her discomfort.

I quit eating eggs 20+ years ago because they tasted different and left a waxy film in my mouth. Once we started getting fresh eggs from our hens I started eating them again. A half dozen fried eggs, a half a pound of bacon, some toast from homemade bread and a quart of real milk makes a good supper for me. 👍

Jeebus....youse guys sound like General Jack D. Ripper..........

They plant rice overseas in flooded fields. Even have some machinery for it.

Of course, we could always import some paddy workers from an impoverished nation to help the midwestern farmer.

Geno

Anytime our feilds flooded..is sucked...but the next year was GREAT!....