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Posted by Kris Krieger on May 10, 2008, 1:58 pm
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>>> >> "Pat"> wrote
>>> >>>I was up the road talking to a farmer. The only corn he sells is
>>> >>>at a
>>> >>> roadside stand. He planted LESS corn this year for sale. He
>>> >>> figures that corn prices are going to be so high that people
>>> >>> will be buying less, so he's planting less so he isn't caught
>>> >>> with extra corn. Hmmmm.
>>>
>>> >> Less is more.
>>> >> That roadside stuff is going on around here all the time.
>>> >> The farmer can grow 40 acres of corn and sell it to the gov't
>>> >> (ethanol) for X and then pay taxes on the X.
>>> >> Or.
>>> >> He can grow 10 acres and sell it locally for X (due to gov't
>>> >> induced increase in price) and keep all of it.
>>> >> Its not rocket surgery.
>>> >> The gov't long ago priced itself out of the market.
>>>
>>> > And personally, I'd much prefer paying farmers directly for
>>> > produce, even
>>> > a
>>> > the same price, because it's not like most of them make all that
>>> > great a
>>> > living by farming - plus, it's so much fresher, and usually
>>> > just-picked,
>>> > as
>>> > opposed to spending 3-7 days being shipped. And it's local.
>>>
>>> > I have to fine a farmer's market here (havent' yet), but in the
>>> > past, I've
>>> > always gone to them, and/or local farmer's stands. The quality is
>>> > jsut so
>>> > much better, and it benefits the farmers more.
>>>
>>> There's a small mom n pop grocery store over in Bean Blossom about
>>> 1.5 miles
>>> from here and along the way there is no less than 5 small farms that
>>> have stuff forsale on the front porch - the honor system.
>>> Corn: 25 cents an ear, tomatoes: 50 cents each, cucumbers for a
>>> quarter, etc.
>>> Interestingly the mom n pop has a small section in the produce area
>>> where they sell the local stuff and its always less expensive than
>>> the brand name
>>> stuff though some of it is not so purty.
>>> My thinking is, it all ends up in the septic tank the next day so
>>> what does
>>> it matter what it looks like?
>>> FWIW I don't eat much corn, its all sugar = baggage.
>>> Maybe 3 times a year and 2 of them will be corn on the cob.
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>> As a brat *Corn on the Cob* was my ABSOLUTE
>> favorite, hot dogs was a distant 2nd.
>> NEVER EVER disparage C-on-C in my presence.
>> I love it when wife freezes some and serves it at
>> X-mas time, yummy.
>> Ken
>
> Looks like they rotate the crops around here, one year its corn and
> the next year its soybeans, guess it has sumfink to do with the
> nutrients in the soil.
> Soy facilitates corn and vice versa.
Soybean is a legume, so it takes nitrogen from the air and fixes it into
the soil in a form that other plants can use - sort-of like free
fertilizer.
> Anyway, we went to the county fair last year and what do you think
> everybody was walking around chomping on?
> Yep, butter-dripping con on the cobs. Mmmmmm....
> Nuthin like corn butter dripping off the bottom of your chin and
> running down your arms.
I could do without the butter - I use a little butter on average MAYBE
once a month. I just lost the taste for it. If I need to "butter" a
pan, I use either X-tr virgin olive oil, or walnut oil (which is
lighter), or even lighter, almond oil if I have some on hand. If I want
to pan "fry" somethign like battered catfish (which is a PITA so I seldom
do it), I use grapeseed oil.
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