Agriculture, Climate, Environment, Fuel - Written by Shawn Verzilli on Monday, May 12, 2008 2:54 - 0 Comments

Agora Financial’s 5 Min. Forecast – Consumers Doubt Stimulus, and more

“U.S. farmers are planting corn at the slowest rate since 1995. According to this week’s planting report from the USDA, only 27% of the U.S. corn crop is in the dirt, the worst planting progress report in more than a decade. As we’ve been telling you since March, conditions are simply too wet or cold for farmers to get seed in the ground.”
Thirty percent of the crop will be diverted to ethanol production. … “Farmers are locked in now,” says our resource counselor Kevin Kerr. “They couldn’t switch to another crop if they wanted to. Input costs are so high that farmers are even planting sections that are literally underwater … just to get something in the ground.”
“At this point, yields are certainly going to be affected. In fact, I hear that in some smaller rural areas, seed and fertilizer dealers have been cut out and have not even gotten what they were promised from their distributors, leaving many farmers without anything. This could be one of the worst years for farming in recent memory and at one of the worst times possible.”



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