Originally Posted By RoadTrip Midwest crop damage not as bad as feared. Source: <a href="http://www.startribune.com/business/22742514.html?location_refer=Homepage:highlightModules:1" target="_blank">http://www.startribune.com/bus...odules:1</a> Well there is a big effin surprise if I ever heard one. Another case of the media trying to panic folks and our gullible population accepting the B.S. as truth. Man, no wonder Dubya has been able to pull his shenanigans for the past eight years. Apparently the average American is dumb as a rock!
Originally Posted By dshyates So it appears that yes the damage amount was correct. It just a fortunate accident that the farmers planted more corn than was reported originally in March. So we were just to assume that the amount of corn reported to have been planted was underestimated and that the floods damage wasn't a big deal because we .....didn't know about..... the extra corn not reported..........in march was waiting in the wings to save us. Yeah that is what we should have assumed when we are watching our food supply wash away.
