if everyone quit spraying where would the price o

[/QUOTE] I always wonder where this 2 billion bushels is. Every year "they" (USDA) tells us we have huge carryover. If we have say a 1 or 2 billion bushel carryover per year for the last 10 years-then shouldn't we have 10 to 20 billion bushels stored somewhere? I wonder where that is or am I looking at this all wrong?[/QUOTE]

Yes, you are looking at it wrong.
Start the year with 2 billion bu carryover, grow 10 billion bu, use 10.5 billion bu and you have a carryover of 1.5 billion bu from that year, to the next year.
Here is another way of looking at it. If you have a 10% surplus, that means you only have a 35 day surplus of corn on hand for the next year. And what if that year is like the one in the late 1800's, that did not have a summer, due to a volcano.

Well that would be something to see, sounds feasible. My luck the chickens would all want steak and potatoes.  

You'll have to throw them some leftover scraps from the local nursing home.
I only have 2 chickens but they eat better than me.
 Chickens are a great way to use leftovers from stores and restraunts.
 My buddy comes home with his pickup loaded from a trip into town.
Pastrys and freshish vegy and fruit.

 Also a good time to mention the midwest is gearing up to be a big hazelnut producer.
 80% of our hazelnuts come from Turkey.
 20% from the west coast.
 Mark Shepard has crossed the west coast commercial hazels with our midwest wild ones.
 Has been stunning them for years.
 Sustained Total Utter Neglect.
 Droughts, coldest winters etc.
 Selecting which ones can handle it and produce the biggest, mostest the earliest. And has come up with some durable and productive bushes.
 Genetics are constantly being improved.

 While Rockefellers are planting 10s of thousands of them on the east coast,
 the midwest has been doing the same.
 Who gets the first processing plant built?  We'll see.
 3 years until the first small crop.


Edited by wide - 04 Apr 2019 at 5:13pm

wide wrote: I hear they have been using beet juice inside tires for weight too,..  instead of the corrosive stuff.  If it gets a leak it probably looks like your tire is bleeding

Weeds are simply plants that man has not figured out how to make them into something beneficial to us. Some day these things might cure cancer. I said might. Yes I spray and cultivate just like we did 50 years ago so no need to holler at me.

I remember in high school being told the American Farmer feeds the world! Well I now know the world feeds itself . Sure some countries buy a lot of grain from us because they have to to keep their people fed and avoid revolution against their government. There are no famines like I remember in Africa or Asia. People that starve today are the result of powers that be wanting them to starve as a means of control! I personally believe that taking chemicals and GMO crops out of farming would bring a shortage for awhile and people would have to adapt. You would see less disposable income devoted to buying things and more to gardens and canning. Old ways of living would come back once people realized that they had to produce their own food. Of course there would be mass upheaval in society. Once that was worked out by the haves and have not's society would adapt. Humans are very adaptable! Our species has adapted for many thousands of years!