Teachable moments

"...then what is this years bumper crop?..."

Oh, with prices dropping to $155 a tonne, I'm sure it's a disaster.

Let the whining begin....

Leftards cannot ever be taught because they are determined to remain ignorant.

Yeah junk science and panic mongering have become lefty chic.

Take a gander at this little propaganda flick being shown in all the schools in North America. I had no idea renewable resources were "finite" and depleted, get 'em young and you have their minds for life. - note it was funded by Tides Foundation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM

News of the record crop, however, has hit the future and cash markets, sending corn prices spiraling from well above $6 a bushel to the $4.50 a bushel region.

Can't ya just smell Wall Street being heavily invested in corn futures and shorting corn futures?

My great grandfather broke land in southern Alberta in 1908 and planted barley. His crop yielded 60 bu/acre. By 1914 there was a dry land farming institute across western Canada and the USA.

From 1918 to 1922 the land in Carmangay was to dry to produce crops. This obviously predated the '30's dust bowl. From 1908 to 1917 there were 5 grain elevators built to accomodate crops grown in the area. 1914 was a bumper year.

Years ago on a very cold winter morning I wandered
into an Alberta barbershop and sat in the chair next
to a farmer who was the centre of much attention and
teasing from the locals enjoying the coffee and stories.
It turned out he had finally had something good happen
after clearing his land and going through five bad harvests.
Questions about how he would spend his first windfall
came thick and fast: winter in California? new trucks?
more equipment? what?

He looked up, and smiling slightly, said,
"You know, a bumper crop is very hard on the land..."

That line brought down the house. A few even started
choking on their laughter.

Farmers on the Canadian prairies are harvesting record yields as well. Prices for most grains are down from last years US drought, anywhere from 2 to 3 dollars/bu. No need to stock up on margarine or bread; cheaper prices are ahead.

Nothing like a artificially extended grain price boom (ie. ethanol policies, etc.), further extended by a chance widespread drought (US Midwest 2012)and accompanied by artificially suppressed interest rates to lull socialist, amoeba-minded farmers into spending profligacy and debt. Hang onto your wallets folks, 'cause now it's time for Act II: when grain is over-produced, prices drop, central banks release the howling interest rate hounds, government changes its mind on ethanol, and a coupla short crops cast a scene of a weeping farm mob on Parliament Hill.
Fuckin' arseholes.
Note 1: I'm a grain farmer - but I was taught to only spend the money I earn, and to not abuse the power of Parliament to steal my neighbour's income. Similar to what Kate says in her intro: the farm lobby groups "DON'T SPEAK FOR ME!!"

I live in very conservative western Iowa. The state as a whole is entirely conservative but Des Moines and the Quad Cities are our own little Berkeley's in the prairie. What makes them breathtakingly pathetic is that they're just coastal wannabe's. After living and working in Northern California for over 30 years, I can tell you, the libs in Iowa are inauthentic. We did finally get rid of that prior jackwagon governor who wanted to make Iowa some sort of illegal alien welcome wagon and have Terry Branstad back at the helm. Hope the folks in Des Moines choke on the fact. He'll probably see multiple terms as occurred his first time around.

"... I'm a grain farmer - but I was taught to only spend the money I earn, and to not abuse the power of Parliament to steal my neighbour's income..."

Bet your not all that popular with your neighbours... ;)

Well, political messing with the second oldest profession of farming is as old as Cain and Abel, and now they have added AGW religion to the mix.

@ "Don't Speak For Me" poster, this poor crop/good price; good crop/bad price has always been. I went though many of those cycles, and you learn to tighten your belt and spend cautiously, sometimes the hard way.

Good for you Mazzuchelli. Lefties and their free lunch supporters owning the cities is common to Canada also.

that is ok because the feds are going to flush any surplus food into ethanol for cars.

Somebody needs to get a hold of the woodenheads on the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario about this bumper year, and ask what it means for their "HELP! Climate Change is upon us" message.

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