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| Where to start? Well thats start where we agree.There definatly are many factors and corn prices is just one of themI guess it doesn't matter to me what the price of corn is.I was trying to point out that the price of corn does raise the consumers grocery bill and that the corn flake example doesn't begin to adress it.But sinced you brought it up thats talk about low calf numbers.Corn prices are a factor there.How much you can decide.When at the county fair this summer I stoped and talk to an old neighbor when I was a kid.He just put up a monoslope to finsih his calves in.Has some of the best genetics you will find anywhere.He told me he was selling half his cows.Two years in a row he was told he had another pasure rented only to loose it in the spring because a crop farmer offered the landowner big money to plant corn on it.The cow/calf guy is competing against high corn prices ethonal helped create.He said he wished he never built that finish building and just sold the corn.Like he said,that all the market seems to care about.No matter how good someone thinks high grain prices are there is someone on the other side being hurt by it.In my opinion at the end of the day high grain prices are good for landowners,for everyone else it all get priced in there somewhere and you have just raised the risk bar a little higher for the guy renting ground.For those who say we wouldn't have all these acres planted to corn if it wasn't for ethonal,yep your right about that.I bet you look around your area and you can find some pasture ground plowed up too.Went by one plowed up the other day and I sure would like someone to tell me how they are following their conservation plan.Made the picture Garvo showed chopping corn on the other day look flat.But hay ethonal is great for the envirement.Maybe I just need to sell my corn too.No use turning 8$ corn into 5$corn.Hmmm what to do with my new cattle sheds? | |
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what you do need to be worrying about
