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[pmacdaddy]

Sounds pretty bad.

Do you know what soybean futures have been doing?

[Downthestretch55]

Originally Posted by pmacdaddy

Sounds pretty bad.

Do you know what soybean futures have been doing?

I really haven't been following soybeans lately. Corn is getting planted big this year, most acres in production since WW II due to ethanol. Should be more than $4.50 a bushel.

[Downthestretch55]

Originally Posted by Downthestretch55

I really haven't been following soybeans lately. Corn is getting planted big this year, most acres in production since WW II due to ethanol. Should be more than $4.50 a bushel.

Update...the corn planting is way behind schedule due to wet fields.
I came across this article today. It doesn't seem to be getting much mainstream media.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/26/783/

And yes, I also like dandelions. Early "greens" fried with bacon make a nice salad. I put some mung bean sprouts on top. I also found a beauty of a watercress bed in a spring seep a couple of days ago when I was catching a limit of native brookies. Cattails should be poking up soon. If you peel off the outer leaves, the hearts are a lot like asparagus. The roots are also good. Boil the tubers with burdock root. Wild ramps will be here soon.
I make them into a kind of "garlic" soup...a little cream, a wild carrot root or two (queen anne's lace).
Anyway, eat wild.
Morels aren't here yet. They come about the same time as the apple blossoms open. I wish there were more bees around to enjoy them.
Eat wild. Report on the bee sightings.
Without those little buzzers, we've got big problems...very big.

I'll be posting my dandelion wine recipe in the "cookbook" when I find it in the clutter of recipes I've been digging through. Spring cleaning....uggh!

[Downthestretch55]

The mystery continues. This could have serious implications.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/honeybee_...xwVI5k78Rhr7sF

[Downthestretch55]

Just trying to bring this up to page one.
It's an important story.

[Downthestretch55]

Today I read this.
Sorry to be the one to keep bringing this up.
This doesn't seem to be getting close to being solved.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...la-home-center

[timmgirvan]

Since this affects most of what we eat, and sell, it is a Big Damn Deal! I don't know when this reporter actually filed this story...seems to me that I read somewhere recently that some progress had been made...