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It certainly seems likely that a lot more people "somewhere" will be starving next year.
Maybe not in one of our neighborhoods, but somewhere where they aren't starving now.
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The Spreading Global Food Crisis Thread pt 2 (merged)
Re: The Spreading World Food Crisis (2)
by wisconsin_cur » Tue 02 Dec 2008, 03:59:21
You are right.
I am wrong.
And I will try to keep that in mind in the future.
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Re: The Spreading World Food Crisis (2)
by Homesteader » Tue 02 Dec 2008, 04:04:55
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Homesteader', 'C')ur, It certainly seems likely that a lot more people "somewhere" will be starving next year. Maybe not in one of our neighborhoods, but somewhere where they aren't starving now.
You are right. I am wrong. And I will try to keep that in mind in the future.
Sorry if my post came across snippy or something. It wasn't intended to offend.
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Re: The Spreading World Food Crisis (2)
by wisconsin_cur » Tue 02 Dec 2008, 04:09:20
No offense taken...
those are the lines that my wife and I use regularly when acknowledging that the other person is correct... I learned them from my parents.
I say it as a matter of discipline and with a good natured smile... even if the subject matter is rather dis-heartening.
those are the lines that my wife and I use regularly when acknowledging that the other person is correct... I learned them from my parents.
I say it as a matter of discipline and with a good natured smile... even if the subject matter is rather dis-heartening.
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Re: The Spreading World Food Crisis (2)
by wisconsin_cur » Tue 02 Dec 2008, 04:32:05
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from 12/1/08
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')IOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) The weekly crop report from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture says South Dakota's Corn harvest is 88 percent complete, compared to 75 percent the previous week.
The sorghum crop is 94 percent harvested, and sunflowers are 83 percent harvested.
The five-year average shows that all three crops should be virtually done by now.
Farmers report that the drying time is the biggest block to the corn harvest. The report says some of the crop won't be picked until the ground is completely frozen.
Ag officials say there's a big demand for crop drying this year and that farmers either will pay the cost of having a dryer at their farm or a higher drying cost at their grain elevator.
Experts say the corn is wetter than it has been in many years.
from 12/1/08
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')IOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) The weekly crop report from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture says South Dakota's Corn harvest is 88 percent complete, compared to 75 percent the previous week.
The sorghum crop is 94 percent harvested, and sunflowers are 83 percent harvested.
The five-year average shows that all three crops should be virtually done by now.
Farmers report that the drying time is the biggest block to the corn harvest. The report says some of the crop won't be picked until the ground is completely frozen.
Ag officials say there's a big demand for crop drying this year and that farmers either will pay the cost of having a dryer at their farm or a higher drying cost at their grain elevator.
Experts say the corn is wetter than it has been in many years.
Silage Problems
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ome producers are finding they have poor-quality corn silage this winter, according to a North Dakota State University dairy cattle expert.
"Properly ensiled, corn silage should have a light, pleasant smell with only a slight vinegar odor," says NDSU Extension Service dairy specialist J.W. Schroeder. "It should be slightly brown to dark green. If it is dark brown or has an odor that is fruity, yeasty, burned or rancid, excessive heating or improper fermentation has occurred."
Many crops in North Dakota were starved for heat units this past growing season and matured later than normal. As a result, these fields also were wetter than normal at harvest. So as the season progressed, some producers had little choice but to chop the corn for silage, resulting in improper moisture for ensiling and storage.
Excessively wet silage (greater than 70 percent moisture) usually results in fermentation dominated by undesirable butyric acid-forming bacteria, the loss of large volumes of highly digestible nutrients through seepage and poor animal performance due to low consumption.
For most crops, forage quality and value decrease with maturity; that is, fiber levels increase and digestible energy decreases. However, corn is somewhat unique in that quality increases with maturity. In corn silage, most of the digestible energy is in the grain portion.
Grain yields have been fairly good in many parts of the state this year, but despite waiting to harvest, the forage often was put up too wet for the silo, bunker or bag, Schroeder says.
Some better news?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ut what’s making most farmers smile is the fact that there’s going to be a lot of corn this year.
“The best way to look at it is the North Dakota Agriculture Statistics Service, or the last government report out of USDA, has the last highest yield on record at 122 bushels as a state average. They’re pegging it right now at 125; it could be 127. That’s a statewide average. On the eastern side of the state, there are producers harvesting 200 bushel corn this year,” Lilja said. “It’s going to be the highest yield on record; we just need to get it harvested.”
Lilja estimated most of the crops would be in between Dec. 7 and Dec. 10.
Ben Capp, who was combining Tuesday in one of the cornfields he works with his father-in-law, Jay Nissen, said they have seven to 10 days left of harvesting, but that they’re taking a break Thanksgiving Day.
Capp and Nissen have a dryer, so Capp says they’ll get as much corn as possible in and set it up to dry during the holiday.
“We’ll kick it back up on Friday,” he said.
The only thing farmers need to pull off a record corn crop this year is a few more days of the sunny, mild weather from Tuesday.
“We can get a few flurries here and there, and they’ll be OK, but the heavy snow needs to hold off,” Lilja said.
The National Weather Service said there is a slight chance of snow Thursday and Friday in most of the valley, followed by partly sunny weather.
Grand Forks, ND weather forecast
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