Speaking of roots, has the Speaker noticed the drought in the Corn Belt which caused a commodity increase by 35%?
This was the first time I have ever witnessed a Constitutional Law being repealed in a nonsensical vote. This is expensive. It is expensive to have Congress in session to play politics with the House when they are suppose to be conducting the country's business and it is expensive for all the work they could have done but didn't. All the country's business had to be put on the back burner while the majority Republicans played politics with our treasury paying for the entire mess.
Thirty - three times is ridiculous. How much money have the Republicans used to play politics from the House floor because all those games are ethical violations.
This isn't sweet corn. This is field corn. The plants get 12 to 15 feet tall.
by David Pitt
Jul. 11, 2012 06:08 PM
Associated Press
...Almost a third of the nation's corn crop is showing damage. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released another report predicting that farmers will get only a fraction of the corn anticipated last spring when they planted 96.4 million acres, the most since 1937....
This was the first time I have ever witnessed a Constitutional Law being repealed in a nonsensical vote. This is expensive. It is expensive to have Congress in session to play politics with the House when they are suppose to be conducting the country's business and it is expensive for all the work they could have done but didn't. All the country's business had to be put on the back burner while the majority Republicans played politics with our treasury paying for the entire mess.
Thirty - three times is ridiculous. How much money have the Republicans used to play politics from the House floor because all those games are ethical violations.
by David Pitt
Jul. 11, 2012 06:08 PM
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Some cornstalks in fields (click here) around the farm where David Kellerman works stand tall. But when the husks are pulled back, the cobs are empty. No kernels developed as the plants struggled with heat and drought.
The soil in Kellerman's part of southern Illinois is like dust after less than an inch of rain since mid-April. This week, he and the farmer he works with cut and baled the withered plants to use as hay for their cattle.... (They bailed it because corn is a form of grass, therefore, hay. It doesn't have the same nutritional value though.)
...Almost a third of the nation's corn crop is showing damage. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released another report predicting that farmers will get only a fraction of the corn anticipated last spring when they planted 96.4 million acres, the most since 1937....
...A rule of thumb is that food prices typically climb about 1 percent for every 50 percent increase in average corn prices, said Richard Volpe, a USDA food markets research economist.
The government has already predicted food prices will increase this year by as much as 3.5 percent.
Kellerman, 28, farms near Du Bois, Ill., with his neighbor, Gerald Kuberski. He said they gave up last week after more than a week of 100-degree or hotter days.
Temperatures over 95 degrees while corn is pollinating can stunt the growth of ears and prevent kernels from fully developing.
"Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we had 108 degrees. It just pretty much fried the corn," Kellerman said....
