Category: Agriculture
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Drought and Corn Prices
I brought up the fact recently that a drought in the corn belt due to the La Nina currently in place could really affect the corn prices and affect the price of food for all of us. I got accused of only caring for this because of how it affects the beef market. I will…
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Corn Economy
<a href="http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272619238.shtml">The Importance of the Corn Economy</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Our food supply depends to a large extent on corn. We feed corn to cattle and cows to provide meat on the table and milk in our glass. It is fed to chickens to provide a staple in our diet and eggs for our morning breakfast. Corn…
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Camelina
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/23/news/state/23-camelina.txt">Fuel-maker offers more for camelina</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Competition from surging grain prices prompted a Bigfork biofuels developer to announce Friday it will boost its contract price for the oilseed crop camelina.<br />n<br />nGreat Plains – The Camelina Co. is one of two groups with plans to produce a combined 200 million gallons of biofuels annually…
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Assumptions
I think somebody is operating under false assumptions here.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/13/news/local/24-mate.txt">Ag economy gives buzz to upcoming farm show</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The buzz surrounding the Montana Agri-Trade Exposition show is off the charts this year as merchants prepare for a crush of farmers and ranchers flush with profits from a healthy agriculture economy.<br />n<br />n"It's certainly…
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Bio-Fuels Aren’t A Green Fuel
I've heard over and over again how ethanol and bio-fuels are the new "green' fuel and are going to save our planet. Guess what, they appear to be wrong.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=biofuels-bad-for-people-and-climate">Biofuels Are Bad for Feeding People and Combating Climate Change</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Converting corn to ethanol in Iowa not only leads to clearing more of…
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Scary
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8U74PLG0&show_article=1" title="">Obama Pledges Support for Animal Rights</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote> HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama says he won't just be a president for the American people, but the animals too. <br />n "What about animal rights?" a woman shouted out during the candidate's town hall meeting outside Las Vegas Wednesday after he discussed…
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Endangered?
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/01/15/news/state/55-endangered.txt" title="Bullshit">Lawmakers: Wolves still endangered</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In a recent letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, the congressmen wrote that states "hostile to wolf conservation" could reduce today's 1,500 wolves to "as few as 300" if the predators lose protected status.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI would really like to see where Rep. Nick Rahall, Rep. George Miller,…
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Consequences
Sometimes the policies that the US fosters and the public condones has unintended consequences.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://stri.org/english/about_stri/headline_news/news/article.php?id=736" title="interesting">Corn… fuel… fire!<br />nU.S. corn subsidies promote Amazon de forestation</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Amazon deforestation and fires are being aggravated by US farm subsidies, claims STRI’s staff scientist William Laurance.<br />n <br />n According to Laurance, whose findings are reported…
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Ethanol Dilemma
Everybody out there knows I am not a big fan of ethanol. Ethanol and bio fuels are in my opinion damaging our food security by turning our food into fuel. We have choices in our life and by filling up our SUV with food, we are driving the price of our food up which damages…
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FIgured It Out
I always love when i read articles that tell me how to do things in the ranch business that I have all ready figured out. <a href="http://beefmagazine.com/cowcalfweekly/consider-grass-alfalfa-mixture/">This one</a> is telling me that I might want to consider grass/alfalfa mixture for hay ground instead of straight alfalfa. <br />n<br />nIt's kind of funny to me because…