Friend works at Allen Canning Co. He said.......

time for a home garden I guess!

Beantards

When you butcher a hog you trim up the bacons so they can be smoked. pork belly trimmings fried in the pan before cooking green beans (fresh, frozen or canned) makes them taste fantastic..

Problem is now adays people are lazy and dont think ahead. they just turn it all into sausage or brats.

cook them with bacon.
bacon fixes taste problems.
my source; bacon flavored vodka and perfume exist.

Interesting. Was reading an article this morning that was talking about Wisconsin (I think) and they were feeding soy beans and wheat and concerned about the cost of soybeans. Was in a hurry so I just skimmed it, but it said they had to add supplements.

Dairy's are also having a hard time. That's going to affect milk, butter, cheese and anything that uses it.

Looks like some serious food issues coming up and it's not just the U.S. Other countries are also having problems. Thing is, some have bought from us and have it in storage. Our country has a bare cupboard.

Last week the Chinese put a couple million metric tons of their soybeans on the market, and then they bought them back.

Its like the scene in all the cowboy movies where somebody drinks half of the canteen and dumps the rest on the ground while the other people in the scene are dying.

High Frustose CORN SYRUP IS IN NEARLY EVERYTHING.

CORN PRICES GOING UP IS GOING TO EFFECT EVERYTHING.

CORN IS EVEN IN SOME MEDICINES AND MANY OTHER NON-FOOD PRODUCTS.

I have no reason to NOT believe the poster.

Our food is being destroyed with heat and lack of rain in the food growing belt.

This heat is killing off not just corn but any food being grown in that area.

with the projection of prices tripling here is a small example for ya.

I went to walmart today with corn on my mind. I found a
4-pack of Green Giant whole kernal corn for $3.00

If prices triple that same 4-pk will cost $9.00 by October given a three month packing time frame.

YOU PEOPLE HAD BETTER THINK ABOUT THAT IF YOU HAVE ANY MATH CALCULATING BRAIN CELLS LEFT.

AND THAT INCREASE WILL BE ON ONE ITEM.......

NOW THINK ABOUT THAT AS PRICES GO EXPONENTIALLY OUT ACROSS ALL YOUR FOOD PRODUCTS AND CHOICES.

THINK ABOUT THAT FOR YOUR BEER AND YOUR LIQUOR.

THINK ABOUT THAT FOR YOUR DAM CORN CHIPS AND CORN TORTILLAS.

THINK ABOUT THAT FOR ALL YOUR CORN FED BEEF.

THINK ABOUT THAT FOR YOUR SODA POP.

YOU ARE A LAME-BRAIN IF YOU DON'T GET IT.

I believe that!

Was reading this one this morning:

China Food Firms Brace for Margins Hit From US Drought

The worst drought in more than 50 years in the U.S. is hurting food companies in China and margins are likely to suffer in the second half of the year, even as firms battle rising wages, analysts tell CNBC.................

Soybeans hit an all-time high on Wednesday, with the contract for August delivery rising 44.5 cents, or 2.7 percent, to finish at $16.835 per bushel. Wheat prices also ended at the highest level since the spring of 2008.

All this points to higher food prices in China in the second half of the year, analysts say. Jessie Guo, Head of Consumer Research at Jefferies in Hong Kong, said the high prices of soybean, which is an ingredient of many food products in China, will also lead to higher prices for other products like beef and pork.
[link to www.cnbc.com]

NW AR myself. I have my own garden and started early and with watering, still picking green beans. So no green bean doom here! And I will likely be receiving a grass grown beef from relative in the next several months. But, no joke, it's dry as a bone here and he only got one cutting on hay himself. May already be haying that beef!

Answer me this, because my husband is wanting to build a greenhouse. How do you get stuff to grow in a greenhouse if you can't get insects in there to pollinate?

Massive crop failure is no joke..

How many of you are able to grow and preserve your own food? Enough food to feed yourself and your families for over a year.. until the next harvest.. really..?

Think about it. 3 days worth of groceries in the stores.. which will disappear in minutes in a crisis..

Then what..? Mickey D's..?

Good luck with all that.

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A small soft paint brush and you brush the flowers by hand.

It works. I have done it.

Actually any brush that is soft will work.

You could even try one of those "blush make up" brushes.

peas cool weather crop. Have to fly them in from South America or Australia.

Do it yourself or release good insects in the gh.

in big agribusiness plastic greenhouses some have tried bees but generally they use something like a leaf blower and tug on the branches. The pollen is directed upward by the blower.

Last Edited by Kirk on 07/21/2012 12:54 AM

My ex at one time worked in one of those NW Arkansas can factories it is not uncommon for them to work like the dickens for awhile and then shut down....and so I call....

then what? that's where the guns come in handy for hunting and fishing poles for fishing, that's what. But yeah, all them city folk need to start putting that backyard to use and grow at least some of their own food. Water their gardens instead of their lawns.

Im sitting on 250 squares of bahaia/bermuda mix and only want 6 per square,my part of texas had an ok 1st cutting but if no more rain comes before october i want be getting another cutting.

My hay is very cheap to what others are rackin folks for on their prices,i just want enough so i can pay for another cutting,if i get one and a little profit.


www.hayexchange.com

I have always cooked my canned green beans in lemon juice, butter, garlic salt or powder, parsley and a bit of salt if needed. Tastes great.

Lost most of my good yard grass last year so im waiting for the weather ta cool some and then will be putting in raised beds where the grass once was.

Didnt plant this year because last year the damn 4 inch long hoppers took everything!
They came back this year,looking online for some sort of gardening mesh that i can afford so i can cover my raised beds i plan on putting in.

Pesticide soaked white beans with green lead based paint on them...

Thankfully, we have not been plagued with too many grasshoppers here. We have some, but not masses of them. Japanese beetles have been the plague before, but not so much this year. Interestingly enough, I haven't seen hornworms on my tomatoes either. I have seen some assassin bugs this year in my garden and I think they really helped with those nasty squash bugs and such. One thing I noticed is when it's very hot and dry, bugs seem to disappear. And I mean 100 degree hot! I could not stand it last year. I think we had over 6 weeks of 100 degree weather here with no rain. I know Texas had it bad too.

Beantards and corntards. SHEESH!

If you want a pot of really good tasting green beans, add a few drops of liquid smoke to taste along with your other seasonings. I like green beans that have been way overcooked with chunks of country ham and small potatoes. Set a skillet of cornbread out with it and you have a decent meal.

Cool bro, yeah my mother in laws Aunt's boyfriend that works at the same company told my next door neighbors wife's little sister the same thing in a email 3 days ago.

grasshopper eggs are killed by a fungus in the soil,not enough rain for the fungus and most those eggs hatch.

Yes,last year was the worst kinda heat i have ever been in,day after day.I wanted ta run away from it but couldnt..LOL

Still had outside work and animals to take care of,tommorow getting triple on us (104)

weather mod...factory closures..farmers losing crops..SHIT IZ GOING DOWN!

Evidently you are so out of touch with nature that you have no idea what is going on around you weather/bug/food-wise.

About half of my garden didn't make it to production. The bugs are seemingly immune to even the pesticide I finally resorted to using. My pole beans haven't grown over 6 to 8 inches tall, even with steady watering. The potatoes grew like crazy but Still haven't bloomed. Corn didn't break ground at all and I am having to hand pollinate the tomatoes to get more than a handful per plant.
This is the Strangest year I have Ever seen!

If this is any indication of the Nation, we are in deep shit come fall. Money may not be the issue, no matter how high the prices get... There simply may not be much of anything to buy.

Like starvation much griptard?

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