Jun
13
2008
Flooding endangers corn crop
We’ve talked a couple of times before about using corn to produce ethanol, and how this increases the demand for corn and thus the price. Well, now there’s more bad news: the recent flooding in the Midwest is wiping out some farmers’ fields, reducing this year’s corn crop and pushing prices to an all-time high.
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And corn mash whiskey will be prohibitively expensive.
It promises to be a grim and sobering summer for us all.
tornados are not as fun as volcanoes
the can being a world down. IF one place gets hit then everyone else tries to help in some way. Nothing will ever make those places the same again,
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