took a holiday drive out south to have a look around at industrial food's feedstock...the news is mixed and not all that good especially...i did see farm machinery ( albeit parked...perhaps for the holiday ) in the fields...
the majority of the fields ( and, again, this is a small sampling from a couple of indiana counties ) were planted in beans..and , given the weather in spring, that is no surprise...
i found exactly two corn fields...this one in porter county has plants far smaller than anything i planted in my yard at the end of may...
and this one in the field by the supermarket which was obviously planted well inside the planting window since it is up to almost my waist...verdant and robust...
on the other end of the spectrum there is still quite a bit of acreage that remains untouched...some seems to have been sprayed with herbicide...perhaps preparatory to planting beans...perhaps some other phenomena...still there is not much time left for planting even beans...at least not any that will return a worthwhile harvest...
the stalks in this field tell me it was dense yellow # 2 last season and the still standing water after a few relatively dry and warm days tells me why it is untouched as yet this season...
and the sign tells me it is for sale...farming is not what it once was...the yeoman farmer and jefferson's "republic of townships" are dead...and not coming back...meanwhile dense yellow #2 settled at $188.58 a metric ton yesterday...up $14.47 in ten days...that crop by the supermarket may pay off well come autumn.
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