Government to give farmers 12 Bn

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Yummy.

The farmers that we rented our land to mostly grew soy beans. As a kid I always liked to jump into a fully loaded truck of beans. They are like small hard marbles and you would sink up to your chest when landing in them. You'd had to have been there I guess. One such farmer was keen on using a lot of pesticides but did not use herbicides at all. The combines thrash out everything but the soy beans or things that are the size of soy beans. One time I jumped into a loaded bean truck that was literally full of sand spurs. That ended my enjoyable moments around soy bean harvesting.

Allen,
Your post brought back a lot of memories of doing the same. I also remember the little beetles we called stink bugs crawling around in the beans. Our was a 1973 Ford 2 ton truck and a New Holland TR70 combine, those were the days.

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Yummy.

The farmers that we rented our land to mostly grew soy beans. As a kid I always liked to jump into a fully loaded truck of beans. They are like small hard marbles and you would sink up to your chest when landing in them. You'd had to have been there I guess. One such farmer was keen on using a lot of pesticides but did not use herbicides at all. The combines thrash out everything but the soy beans or things that are the size of soy beans. One time I jumped into a loaded bean truck that was literally full of sand spurs. That ended my enjoyable moments around soy bean harvesting.

Allen,
Your post brought back a lot of memories of doing the same. I also remember the little beetles we called stink bugs crawling around in the beans. Our was a 1973 Ford 2 ton truck and a New Holland TR70 combine, those were the days.

[Allen]

I also remember the little beetles we called stink bugs crawling around in the beans.

Oh, yeah we had plenty of stink bugs in the back of those trucks as well. I don't recall what type truck the farmer used but it was also about a 2 ton series with very high sides to hold the beans. Seems like this event happened in Sep. or Oct. because it was in the fall with the dry air. Also the time of year we started harvesting our pecans. Beans are gone, pecan trees are gone, sand spurs are gone, stink bugs are gone, land is still there as well as the memories though.

[jon_norstog]

here's some fallout from trade chaos: MV Aquagemini, 60,000 DWT register tied up at one of Portland's grain docks on 7/17 ... I spotted her and came back to take a picture 7/19 or 20. It usually takes a week or more to load a big bulk carrier, so I kept and eye on her whenever I rode cross the Steel Bridge. Wednesday 7/25 she wasn't down an inch in the water. WTF?? I thought. Friday 7/27 she was gone! Left port empty. She's about 100 NMI west of Monterey and headed roughly SxSE.

China doesn't just slap a tariff on grain - they have a two-tier system where wheat producing countries have a quota they can sell in China at a very low tariff, than anything over that gets hit hard. They have an overall quota and favored producers get a bigger share of it. WHat may have happened is that the company that hired Aquagemini lost it's quota share mid-passage ... maybe tried to bribe their way into letting just this load slip in and when that didn't work either cut their losses on the trip or found another export country to load in. Argentina? Brazil? She'll fit through the Canal.

Here she is tied up at the grain dock

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Here's what she is supposed to look like leaving port

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jn

[Darreld Walton]

Have the government buy the products the farmers have to sell, cancer the EBT card and return to commodities.
Sam

The gubmint may STILL have cheese stored somewhere.....