China has been known for throwing head fakes. Before making such announcements they’ll short the market and when prices do drop they buy at lower prices using money made on the short sales.
This may or may not be the case here.
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What we've learned from history is that we haven't learned from it.
The guy who owns the farm that adjoins my place has been alternating between soybeans and corn every year since I've been here. Corn was last year. He's planted beans this year.
The guy who owns the farm that adjoins my place has been alternating between soybeans and corn every year since I've been here. Corn was last year. He's planted beans this year.
Beans are good for the soil.
The degree of my privacy is no business of yours.
What we've learned from history is that we haven't learned from it.
You guys don't want soy near your place and certainly not GMO corn.
You'll get Roundup, also known as liquid cancer blowing downwind and maybe in your ground water.
If you grow either, be ready in case Monsanto tries to steal your land. Just a friendly warning from someone who has taken their classes many moons ago, only to despise that evil company.
Can't tell here by looking, we rotate crops - keeps disease and pests down. Have to wait for ag reports.
But I don't get it. There's X demand in the world and Y supply. Beans are fungible.If the Chinese buy from somebody else where do the people who normally buy from somebody else go? Yes, somebody else may put more acres in beans but given demand for other crops that's on the margin, no?
Back in the days of co mmodity support for dairy government would buy cheese and give it away. My big fear is the government will mandate everybody gets free toe-foo. The great toe foo epidemic.Maybe it would substitute for ballistic gelatin in expansion tests.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
You guys don't want soy near your place and certainly not GMO corn.
You'll get Roundup, also known as liquid cancer blowing downwind and maybe in your ground water.
If you grow either, be ready in case Monsanto tries to steal your land. Just a friendly warning from someone who has taken their classes many moons ago, only to despise that evil company.
Virtually all fields around these parts, except for the organic farms, plant GMO's, use roundup religiously and many have their fields cut in with human manure. Think about that next time you dump some soy sauce on your chow mein or load up your aunt jemimas with maple flavored corn syrup!
Well I guess they could buy our corn and weat if they go all in on beans. I don't know but as I understand it you can put only so much land into production at a time and there is a need to diversify crops. From an economic planner's point of view you also have to consider what will happen when the political BS stops influencing the marketas it always does. I'm not an economist much less an ag economist but I'm skeptical after hearing worst case and then some predictions since I was a kid.
And as far as Roundup I've heard that all before too with atrazine, 24D and the old favorites. still after banvel I see. So what do you do to keep yield up and the people fed? Dump more NPK into the watershed? Pick your poison I guess.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
I don't think anyone uses manure around here, not economical. Except for the few dairy herds that need to get rid of the pile next to the barn every spring.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh