#cornbelt — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cornbelt, aggregated by home.social.
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Popcorn: The Only Grain That Performs
Last weekend, the village of North Loup, Nebraska, population somewhere around three hundred, threw its 125th Annual Popcorn Days. A carnival took over Highway 11 from Friday to Sunday. There was team penning and sorting, a turtle race, kids' games, a juvenile parade, a men's slow pitch tournament, sand volleyball, a street dance, and on Sunday the largest parade in the area to close the show. The theme this year was "Looking Back at 125 Years of Popcorn Days," which is what happens when the anniversary becomes the headline: the parade turns into a mirror. II spent my childhood summers in North Loup with my grandfather, in a house where the television pulled in exactly one signal, channel 10/11, and where the calendar bent around one August weekend the way other towns bend around Christmas. The smell arrived before the event did. Hot oil, salt, the sweet dust hanging over the poppers. You could stand at the edge of town with your eyes closed and know what week it was. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/23/popcorn-the-only-grain-that-performs/
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2)🧵I generated a pre-harvest US #Agriculture 2025 risk assessment report for my firm Green Econometrics. The combines are in the field now in the #wheat belt, #corn belt and #Soybeans belt, harvest is underway and it looks a lot like a bumper year. Turns out that’s a significant challenge for #farmers at this moment - as counterintuitive as that sounds. My #Ag report explains…
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bFyjQcKSjGjZS3yvYiWCxB0i9TroflDoLyeEVhuHTHE/edit?usp=drivesdk #farming #midwest #CornBelt #WheatBelt
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America’s #CornBelt Bristles at $8 Billion Lifeline
"After regulator pushback and vocal opposition from #farmers who don’t want to be anywhere near a project they claim tramples on landowner rights, Summit Carbon Solutions has gone back to the drawing board to revise the #pipeline’s path 6,300 times."
#CCS
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-13/summit-carbon-pipeline-in-us-corn-belt-awaits-state-permits-farmer-support?srnd=homepage-americasSomeone needs to tell farmers that an acre of solar panels can give 70 times the EV miles than an acre of corn can drive a gas car.
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"After having the historical flooding in the region in the spring of 2019, we went into drought development in the fall of 2019 and that dryness has been building ever since."
NDMC's Brian Fuchs provides perspective on drought in the Western Corn Belt for DTN's Progressive Farmer.
Read more: https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2023/12/18/driest-western-corn-belt-lifetime
#drought #CornBelt #news #agriculture #UnitedStates #US #USA
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At the end of July and beginning of August, three main areas of #drought and abnormal dryness were ongoing in the #Lower48:
▪️ The #Northwest
▪️ The upper #Midwest, #CornBelt, and eastern #GreatPlains
▪️ The central #GulfCoast and parts of the #SouthwestRead more in the July 2023 Drought #Climate Summary: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/daac56f7f65d47f0b3cc5714cf14d347