tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post7850951989565122890..comments2009-12-02T17:12:06.335-08:00Eric deCarbonnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08023745289801416061noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-39495151064833219782009-12-02T17:12:06.335-08:002009-12-02T17:12:06.335-08:00markets not responding to all the disasters here. this iowa farmer wonders why. my yields are about like last year although some in the area are crowing about their yields, mine were clipped by frost in october. in both corn and soy. eric, interesting concept on the black earth plan for russia,but they like to nationalize what ever is successful. and dont rule out the russian mafia. sorry the price tag is too much for me. how close is this area to the ukraine? always wanted to go there since the beatles song! loldabbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10778911959774233138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-10356755180188334722009-11-25T05:07:29.901-08:002009-11-25T05:07:29.901-08:00I&#39;m sure that wet and wild weather is a problem with harvest. However, that doesn&#39;t explain why crops failed in areas that didn&#39;t experience so much rainfall.<br /><br />It&#39;s the atmosphere, people! We have put so many toxins into the air from burning coal and oil that it is now poisoning vegetation.<br /><br />I&#39;ve been posting pictures and links to scientific research at www.witsendnj.blogspot.com.<br /><br />The trees on the East Coast are all dying from cumulative damage from ozone and other emissions, and it wouldn&#39;t surprise me if it isn&#39;t the underlying cause of sudden aspen decline in the rockies, and sudden oak death in California.<br /><br />I&#39;ve been writing and calling the federal and state Ag. Depts. for the past year and when they aren&#39;t ignoring me they have been lying to me.<br /><br />Interesting to see someone else in agreement!Gailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-37443986006844259492009-11-24T23:20:57.462-08:002009-11-24T23:20:57.462-08:00Why Vietnam devaluing their currency today (Dong)?<br /><br />Why don&#39;t they appreciate their currency to fight inflation threat?<br /><br />Why China won&#39;t do the same as Vietnam does? <br /><br />Sometimes we need to wonder how the world really works.. Government might not fight for their people interest... China maybe not excluded, aren&#39;t they? They are among the first in promoting swine flu vaccine!!Traderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01343475402864913858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-61956073702539309332009-11-24T18:50:10.671-08:002009-11-24T18:50:10.671-08:00In the current situation I don&#39;t trust the US government to follow the rule of law and not take your soy beans or whatever it wants. I&#39;d trust the Russian government even less. The peasants used to bury and hide their harvest. Hard to do that today...riteturnhttp://openid.aol.com/riteturnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-15660310160728630772009-11-24T17:37:05.518-08:002009-11-24T17:37:05.518-08:00Fortunately, the Texas drought is mostly over. Here in SE TX there&#39;s water in the fields. Central Texas isn&#39;t caught up yet, though.TXLonghornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04853415689481231111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-23189545319549162922009-11-24T10:14:04.226-08:002009-11-24T10:14:04.226-08:00An important reason why the Chines government is encouraging Chinese peasants to plant more soybeans as they buy what the peasants produce is that maintaining stockpiles of soybeans allows for greater control of prices. This will become more important as shortages increase. If confidence decreases that food prices will remain stable and low enough to meet their basic needs, Chinese consumers will become less willing to make large purchases of durable goods. In the US as the government loses the ability to control food prices as stockpiles diminish and it becomes more difficult to continue to manipulate the futures market and to get people to believe their crop estimates, it becomes more likely that a spike in food prices could occur which could reduce the confidence to consume durable goods to a level which is substantially below even the current low level of confidence.David Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06980963650678281323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-88270559817387157812009-11-24T08:31:48.410-08:002009-11-24T08:31:48.410-08:00Thx Sebastian, I corrected the mistake.Eric deCarbonnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08023745289801416061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-18152334912889028072009-11-24T07:33:20.833-08:002009-11-24T07:33:20.833-08:00Ominous...<br /><br />What food product can be grown quickly to prevent mass starvation?<br /><br />Is there any progress in Xeric crops?<br /><br />Are there many more water reservoirs being constructed?Keating Willcoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03009267869802688966noreply@blogger.com