Corn
Corn is everywhere in everything from apples to antifreeze, body lotion to batteries, margarine to magazines. --- King Corn
Yes corn is everywhere and kids today are wondering if that's a good thing. They're right to wonder, you know.
I here at NAP Chicago Headquarters have been nuturing some corn - hoping that this hands on management style will help bring corn to market better prepared and focused.
-Corn, manicured by my green thumbs.
-What would the corn be without a great manager by its side?
-I don't know. Why bother asking?
-I'm here.
-Corn is here.
-It's all good.
Corn - out this Fall on the NAP.
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Why am I so amused by this post? :)
corn hits record highs
As NAP's cornfed delegate with many relatives still living in Iowa, I feel obliged to make the connection between the speculation on this commodity and the fact that much of Eastern Iowa is currently under water.
It's worse than the 500-year flood predictions. My dad and step-mother are fine (in Marion, north of Cedar Rapids) because they have well water. Clean city water has been rationed, no one can take showers. My aunt said her CR friends' shower and toilet drains had become geysers. After some tense negotiations about what to do with all of the psych patients, a hospital has been evacuated, not the one in which I was born- the other one. The city library (which was quite stately and elegant, one of the few institutions that made an impression on me in my early years) has flooded up to the second floor. New furniture and appliances are floating out the door of the local furniture warehouse outlet. Apparently Paylo, the area's nuclear reactor, is fine even though it's right next to a river. As with New Orleans, the floodwaters are toxic. The water is expected to crest in CR today, but it is all headed for Iowa City and has already gone over the Coralville Dam. All but one bridge in Iowa City has been flooded or washed out already.
Needless to say, much the state's early planting (the corn was 1" high) has been wiped out. As I've stated before, the state's lack of land management policies have turned it into an industrial agricultural wasteland. I do wonder if some of this could have been mitigated by not wiping out all of the riparian growth systems along the rivers... I also think I'm wondering about this way too late.
We're going for the golden record Bluebird! Thanks for ch-earing us on. And glad your relatives are safe.
Dams are inevitably no match for mother nature. The earth moves at her will.
As eventually we will know with the downing of many great lakes (like Lake Powell) probably in our lifetime.
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