Farmers scramble to finish harvest from hell »
Posted By engineer 5 days, 20 hours ago in News
The clock is ticking on farmers like the Pierce brothers all across the Midwest as they scramble to bring in the largest U.S. soybean crop on record and the second-largest corn crop before winter arrives.
Late-maturing crops and persistent rain throughout October halted fieldwork, making this the slowest start for the U.S. harvest since the 1970s. The delays -- and questions about crop quality -- have kept Chicago Board of Trade grain markets on the boil.
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canadianrancher575 days, 10 hours ago
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Thanks engineer, nice to see a story about agriculture. It has been one interesting year for trying to grow crops across most of North America, Cool spring and summer and then September up here was like summer and then it started to rain and seemed to rain for the whole month of October. In our area up here people have just started to grow corn and beans on a larger scale and the last two years have been very trying. Most of the corn up here has a lot of mold in it and many people are talking of just burning the fields since it is no good for feed and the ethanol industry doesn't seem at all interested either.
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For those who are interested in the swing in the prices for corn on the CBOT here in an interactive graph just to show how much prices have changed since early September.
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/javachart/ZC/C9-
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Natureboy4 days, 20 hours ago
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"Most of the corn up here has a lot of mold in it and many people are talking of just burning the fields since it is no good for feed and the ethanol industry doesn't seem at all interested either."
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The corn farmers should examine their corn mold closely to see if they are sitting on a goldmine.
Corn smuts, a black fungus which infects corn particularly during times of over-abundant moisture, is also known as the truffle of the Aztecs. It's Spanish name is "huitlacoche," and it fetches a pretty penny either frozen or canned.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/life/food/Huitlacoche_...
Huitlacoche is twenty to fifty times as valuable as the corn it grows on.
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canadianrancher575 days, 7 hours ago
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I don't know how far south you are but I hope everyone gets things done before the snow flies, I'm sort of the eternal optimist, I believe if you don't get in a panic things usually work out. In agriculture or even growing a garden it is always nice to take off a harvest , it's nice to have the production and it seems to give a person a feeling of accomplishment.
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