Don’t worry Big Ag will use the Farm Bill to subsidize losses and no multi billionaire Corporation will lose money cuz farming shouldn’t be risky unless you are not a multimillionaire.

Time for another bail out. The idea of using corn for fuel was not well thought and of course politically motivated. Remember Viagra Spoke Person Bob Dole and Tom Harkin and all those from Corn Belt jumping on the opportunity.
It takes more energy to make fuel from corn on equivalent bases and dont forget the waste generated from processing.

Pope is retiring? Any idea of his 401K and Roth IRA estimate. Is he getting a platinum parachute.

Of course droughts will persist if, as scientists in Iowa believe, the root cause is Climate Change which remains unaddressed.

I’m not near as well versed on this as others, but even if droughts don’t persist, as in into 2013, that doesn’t mean global climate change isn’t to blame.

I don’t think regional patterns that change drastically will change all at once. It will be more like 4 out ot 10 drought years for awhile, then 6 out of 10, then 7, and you get the idea. Just because 2013 rebounds into a “normal” year doesn’t mean global climate change had nothing to do with this year’s drought.

Both the scientific community and big business have known this for many years but the latter has stifled the former for short term profits for the few over long term investments for the good of all.

I’m astounded. Competing with our cars for food was a bad idea?

Who could have known?

Climate Change is unpredictable and delivers extremes. We are only a could of years past record floods in the drought area.

Exactly right.

In 2008, flooding caused an estimated $10 billion in damage. This year it’s drought.

Regardless of which extreme is realized, it should still be attributed to Climate Change.

The climate change deniers continue to drive vehicles that consume fossil fuels and heat and cool their homes with oil or electricity from coal simply because Climate Change remains unaddressed.

What a load of horseshit.

At first I thought you were trying to be insulting, but perhaps you were merely summing up the likely alternative to climate change deniers reduction of their fossil fuel consumption.

Can you spell Archer Daniels Midland?

Boy, don’t we have egg all over our faces.

Ooooh. Can cars run on eggs??????

What a load of horseshit.

Great idea. I think many of the “alternate fuel” cars and trucks CAN run on horsshit mixed with bio-diesel.

YOu sir are a viosionary. :-)

The thing that really takes a toll on corn production in February is WINTER!!!

Actually horse and bull shit are very big contributors since they produce methane and according to scientists a molecule of methane is many times worse than a molecule of CO2.

Are you sure about that, I just bought two bags of frozen corn.

In the good old days before the Climate Change deniers started driving their horseless carriages all over the country.

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/stories/how-fast-could-you-travel-across-the-us-in-the-1800s

Hysterical headlines like the one for this diary may grab peoples attention but may not help the GW cause since it is misleading.

There is no shortage of corn in fact world production was up 2.1 million bushels in 2012. The US crop was down but not dramatically and exports are soft so prices have fallen.

The decision to halt ethanol production was political designed to soften price speculation before the harvest. I expect ethanol production to resume soon to use up the surplus stores. Farmers are actually hoping for a smaller crop this year to maintain price levels.

Global grain consumption has exceeded production in 8 of the last 13 years, leading to a drawdown in reserves. Worldwide, carryover grain stocks — the amount left in the bin when the new harvest begins — stand at 423 million tons, enough to cover 68 days of consumption.

This is just 6 days more than the low that preceded the 2007–08 grain crisis, when several countries restricted exports and food riots broke out in dozens of countries because of the spike in prices.

earth policy institute.

weather extremes, including (formerly) extreme drought and extreme precipitation, including rain, snowfall, and extreme flooding are consequences of our heating of the planet,

Not eggactly.

Does not need for 401k and IRA. He’s on the eternal plan.

What’s insulting is your obtuse “logic” regarding the use of fossil fuels, as though the only way anyone can be legitimately concerned about global warming is if one lives in a home completely off the grid and travels only by walking, bike, or presumably horseback.

Your framing of it that away is nothing less than an unadulterated load of horseshit.

And if you found it insulting, great, since I found your simpleton logic to be just as insulting.

You used to be at least a little better than this. Now all you’ve got is bullshit and horseshit.

Don’t forget fallacious arguments.

as though the only way anyone can be legitimately concerned about global warming is if one lives in a home completely off the grid and travels only by walking, bike, or presumably horseback.

: a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings

Maybe you could use all that legitimately concerned hand wringing to generate some carbon free electricity.