Re: Too Corny ? Record US Harvest = Low Prices

On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:55:48 -0400, c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:

>https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/midwest/record-corn-harvest-farmers/
>
>U.S. corn production is projected to hit a record 16.7 billion
>bushels
>
>Surging supply is threatening to push prices down further
>
>Tariff uncertainty has complicated the outlook for exports
>
>. . .
>
>   CAN be too much of a good thing.
>
>   Despite climate doom bullshit, it does appear
>   that the harvest is the largest ever.
>
>   But what to DO with it all ?
>
>   Corn is mostly starch and oils. That which is not
>   eaten directly can be ground and squeezed and the
>   sub-products used in a lot of other things - food
>   and industrial. 

Less than 2% of the corn crop is used for human consumption.

>Hell, a few tweaks and you can run
>   a diesel engine on corn oil and the starch can be
>   made into ethanol - for likker and running cars.
>   Those extracted products will keep for a LONG time.

Ethanol requires government subsidies.

>   Hmmm ... Joe sucked dry the emergency petroleum
>   reserve - who says it can't be refilled with
>   lots of gasahol ?

Because gasahol costs more than gasoline.

>   So, while money may be a bit slow coming, I don't
>   see this huge harvest actually going to waste.
>
>   Now farmers ... they ARE very sensitive to money
>   coming slowly. Many operate in debt until the
>   harvest, literally a few months ahead of
>   bankruptcy. Fail to maintain the land and it
>   quickly goes to shit - full of weeds and the
>   irrigation and equipment falls apart and you'll
>   probably get gigantic 'dustbowls' again too.
>
>   Most farmers and farm-oriented regions voted for
>   Trump ... so Trump had better find a fix for this,
>   FAST. He KNOWS there's a problem, so ....
>
>   Giant tariffs on would-be foreign buyers is
>   NOT good at all.

So he charges massive tariffs that cut farmers off from their markets
then gives that tariff money to farmers to make up for it?

That about right?
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Trump, like MAGA. has delusions of competency.