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Corn Pain On Farm Plain Continues

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While corn futures fell precipitously today with this years crop losing 10 billion United States dollars on paper, there were more reasons for pain in the plains. Wheat hit a nine year low reaching 4.36 United States dollars per bushel.1 Wheat plantings were estimated by the USDA to only measure 50.8 million acres, a 50 year low. Meanwhile the acreage of corn plantings surpassed early season estimates coming in around 94.1 million acres2 which projects to a potential 194 million more bushels3 of corn this year than markets were expecting.

The drought typical of the Middle West in La Nina years never materialized in spite of a dry spell from late May to early June teasing the possibility.

Soybean plantings appear to be lower than the USDA and the market expected, likely the result of reasons relating to competition obvious to farmers. The cherry on top of all this pain is that domestic use of all crops for livestock feed is continuing to fall and expected to continue to fall as imports continue their rise. Sorry for your loss.

  1. For out less agriculturally inclined readers a bushel used to be a measure of volume equivalent to eight gallons. Now markets measure weight which varies by crop and moisture content. A market bushel of wheat is 60 pounds at a 13.5% moisture content. Or in the only metric that matters ~92,000 kilocalories.   ↩

  2. Up 550,000 over the March estimate.  ↩

  3. 56 pound at a 15.5% moisture content for ~139,00 kilocalories per bushel.  ↩

Outrage Machine Attacks Sanctity Of Marriage After Shooting

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Now that gays can marry under the law outrage over a gay bar shooting is being used to weaken the definition of marriage.1 The attack on the sanctity of marriage comes as the late and lazy eyed Omar Mateen's (WOT:nonperson) wife (WOT:nonperson) disclosed she was aware he might use a gay bar as a shooting gallery. In light of this voluntary disclosure following husband's death, a death which relieved her of her matrimonial obligation to hold his confidence, the outrage industrial complex is calling for her to be criminally charged and crucified. Continue reading →

  1. The usual noise about banning the sale and possession of high capacity magazines is also being spouted, but that's not news so much as a weather phenomenon  ↩

Remembering The Deadliest Spree Killing In US History

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In 1890 a band of thugs associated with the criminal gang in Washington DC under the command of war criminal Samuel M Whitside were disarming a Lakota community near Wounded Knee creek. Their failure to accommodate a deaf Lakota's disability when confiscating his rifle led them to slaughter at least 1501 Lakota men, women, and children. In the thugs' bloodlust they gunned down 25 of their own men in addition to the Lakota victims. Peace in our time. #AllLivesMatter

  1. Estimates place the number of Lakota victims of this spree killing between 150 and 300 ↩