Friday, May 02, 2008

Weather stalls planting - So much for commodities


May 2, 2008
0930z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite

IT IS CALLED CLIMATE CHANGE ! Pump that oil from ANWR, dump more carbon into the troposphere and watch the disaster humans have created destroy there 'livable' Earth. Go ahead. Be the idiots Bush/Cheney Republicans are counting on all of you to be. Go ahead.

May 2, 2008
0931z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared Satellite

Forecasts for showers and thunderstorms Thursday and Friday will dampen more than the start of the Mushroom Festival. More rain is the last thing area farmers need right now.A cold and wet spring has delayed planting corn by two weeks, and is creating concerns of lost yield potential.


Only 8 percent of Missouri corn has been planted, compared to 41 percent last year, according to the National Agriculture Statistic Service. University of Missouri agriculture research projects that after May 5, corn yields will decrease by 8 percent.“Just today [Tuesday], some customers have started planting,” said Gregg Steele, owner of Richmond Farm and Lawn. “For every day after May 1, they’ll lose yield a bushel per acre. If the forecast is right for another rain, it will be in the first 10 days of May before all the corn is planted.”...

May 2, 2008
0930z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite



May 2, 2008

0930z

UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite

Chances of severe weather in the Midwest.