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I’m as corny as Missouri in August

17 Sunday Aug 2025

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Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

Last Thursday:

Senator Eric Schmitt
[August 14, 2025]

Fun fact: Missouri corn farmers can produce over 600 million bushels of corn – enough to fill the Arch more than 30,000 times!
[….]

As opposed to export markets? Just asking.

There was much hilarity in the responses:

You should have known better than to post this, but you didn’t, which shows how out of touch you really are.

Is that where Trump is keeping the Epstein Files?

“Fun fact: Missouri corn farmers can produce over 600 million bushels of corn – enough to fill the Arch more than 30,000 times!…”
And do what with it??
Burn it in woodstoves? Use it for fertilizer?

sure aren’t selling it because this loser followed the rapist, felon, child sex trafficker in cutting off their markets.

Exactly. When he [Trump] imposed tariffs, so did our “former” trading partners. Trump has boosted anger at them through his ignorant misinformation. For example “Canada has 150% tariffs on butter”šŸ˜² He didnā€™t mention that only took place after a certain amount of our butter was imported there, I believe it was in the hundreds of tons. At any rate the USMCA was HIS treaty, HE signed…then asked what fool signed it.
Then… “Trump praised the USMCA in 2020 as the ā€œbest agreement weā€™ve ever madeā€ and lauded it for replacing the ā€œnightmareā€ North American Free Trade Agreement ratified under former President Bill Clinton…”
Now… “President Donald Trump is outraged that Americans are footing an unfair financial burden, citing a 2020 trade deal called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that he signed.”
“He continued, ā€œI look at some of these agreements, Iā€™d read them at night, and Iā€™d say, ā€˜Who would ever sign a thing like this?ā€™

Thatā€™s wonderful! Good for them! Oh! One question, though, to whom are they going to sell all that corn? Reciprocally bites, doesnā€™t it.

Sounds like enough to cover the Epstein Files

So is anyone buying missouri corn???

Uh, problem is they have produced a record crop, but grain storages are still full because they canā€™t sell it! Maybe you could eat more Sugar Pop cereal!

We’d have ham and eggs. If we had some ham and if we had some eggs.

Sure, and then have it rot there šŸ™„

Follow the money.

Who is going to buy it?

And yet we cut food for USAID. We produce more than we consume ā€¦ Tks. Senator for all of your compassion!

Who sold Missouri farmland to China senator?

There’s that.

What a worthless analogyā€¦

But what are you going to do with it all now that you can’t sell it to USAID and China is switching to Brazil? Do you and Turnip have a clue how anything works?

Were they going to sell it?

The clowns on here that don’t know how tariffs on imports and exports work are hilarious.

Fun fact. Tariffs bankrupt farmers.

a lot of trump supporters forget what happened his last term, soybeans rotting in piles outside full grain bins, massive government bailout program and record farm bankruptcies.

Fun fact: Missouri is 50th in school safety; 15th most dangerous state; and 49th for average teacher pay.

but we got corn! Lol

Trying to save his job after voting for the big beautiful bill to destroy us

One half of Missouri’s embarrassing clown show.

So when the GOP bankrupts farmers again, are we paying to bail them all out, or yā€™all picking up the tab for once?!

Did the GOP send out a memo telling ya’ll to post positive stuff today?

not really hitting the assignment with this rotting corn post šŸ™„

And you talk enough šŸ’©to fill 10 manure factories a day. Neither this nor the corn prices help Missouri farmers.

What kind of thought process would possess you post such a stupid statement like that? Are you bored or just don’t give a crap?

Too bad you guys stole billions of dollars in foreign aid contracts from farmers, contracts which used to feed the world. Too bad you are destroying farm to school programs and supplies to Food banks. There were record farm bankruptcies under Trump last time, and I fully expect it to happen again. And of course you had to put a ton of money into bailing out farmers because you were going steal their workers too.

And in 2025 they will lose their ass on beans and corn because nobody will buy from us. Thanks!

But ā€¦. Why would they?
Work for nothing? The market for corn is negative.
BECAUSE OF YOUR POLICIES.

Where are the Epstein files?

And what are they going to do with it when the president ruins their market with his tariffs? Will you help them get a bailout like his last term?

Fun Fact. All that corn and soybeans will NOT be bought by China. It will sit in piles on the ground and rot. Piles big enough to hide the epstein files.

The problem isn’t growing it, the problem is selling it at a profit. Fricking WEIRDO

Missouri Corps of Engineers: Criticism Revisited

29 Saturday Sep 2007

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Reviews of my earlier posting lambasting the Missouri Corps of Engineers got mixed reviews.  Among the negatives was this reaction from a reader at Daily Kos:

A full tow  of river barges can carry two trainloads of grain. A train can carry 400 truckloads of grain. So for each of those barge tows you want to get rid of, you propose to replace them with 800 more trucks on our overcrowded and deteriorating highways. It’s stupidity like that that gives us environmentalists a bad name- please research the consequences of your bird brained ideas before you dump them on us.

SlyDi

Ouch!  A reply is called for.

Let me reiterate that the Corps’ own 1998 fifty million dollar study of their plan to build more locks and dams concluded that doing so was not cost effective.  The Corps ignored its own study and lied about the conclusions, until its chief economist, Donald Sweeney, called the top brass on their lies.

I’m not an economist for the Corps, so my explanation of why building those locks and dams wasn’t cost effective won’t be fiscally precise.  But neither will it be “bird brained”. (Considering that I wrote about Least Terns, I wonder if you intended the pun, SlyDi.)

Barge traffic has substantially decreased over the decades in favor or using trains and trucks.  And for good reason.  While the idea of cheap transportation (let the currents do the work instead of fossil fuels) appeals to us in this age of global warming, the reality is that such transportation isn’t cheap.  Congress is giving the Corps four billion dollars for lock-and-dam construction.  Should we assume that such construction–aside from the issue of being cost ineffective–won’t depend on the use of fossil fuels to run the heavy equipment?

Furthermore, not all the bells and whistles of the lock-and-dam system on the Mississippi can disguise the problem with barge transportation:  it is slow and undependable because of the weather.  Droughts can make the river too low for barge traffic.  And even in good years, the traffic will be halted several months because of winter weather. 

Of course, I’m not crazy about the idea of the fuel it would take to ship barge-delivered products by train and by truck.  But I will say that at least the heavier highway traffic could be alleviated if the government were to mandate that the trucking industry use the roads at night.

Another reason I disapprove of using barges is that the product they carry the most is corn.  If ever there was a product that ought to go extinct, it’s corn.  Much of that corn is being shipped to New Orleans so that it can be shipped abroad.  To feed the world’s hungry?  Hardly.  Many countries that could effectively feed themselves find their farmers undercut because we subsidize our farming industry.

And we subsidize–of all possible crops!–corn.  Corn requires more atrazine than other grains, as well as more of other herbicides and more fertilizer.  And the longer we grow it, the more of these poisons are required each year.  There is a large dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico around New Orleans, thanks in large part to runoff from such products.

What isn’t being shipped abroad is being used for ethanol–don’t get me started on the stupidity of that industry–and for high fructose corn syrup–here’s to your ill health.

I confess that I digress.  The subject here was barges, not corn.  So?  It’s still worth saying.  And anyone who disagrees with me deserves a corn cob up ….

But I’ll get back on topic.

Congress mandated that the Corps of Engineers was to protect Least Terns, Pallid Sturgeons, and Piping Plovers.  Once, my husband saw a Least Tern nest destroyed because the Corps flooded Ellis Bay to let a–as in one–barge through.  Congress might as well have said, “Protect terns, sturgeons, and plovers … when the barge industry finds it convenient.”

So, SlyDi, I stand by my hostility toward the Corps of Engineers–that model of efficiency that helped New Orleans to its death. 

They should all be employed by Weber Concrete, because pouring cement is what they’re all about.  I don’t expect to see the day that any of the brass at that agency give a rat’s patootie about any bird or fish.