"I get meat from local farmers. Free range, organic, no hormones or anti-biotics. I paid for one years worth frozen with a 2.5 year shelf life. Worthless if there was a disaster, but meat price increases won't be seen in my budget for awhile. I eat a lot of rice and can't be bothered to make lots of trips for it. So I buy it in these massive bags and have it delivered. Again worthless in a disaster, I can't carry those bags.

Most things I prefer fresh, but the meat tastes good despite being frozen.

I don't tend to eat much in the way of corn products. If it raises alcohol prices, I'll be sad.
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"The corn crop in our county is terrible. The worst since '88 and that's saying something.

Remember though the media will blow this out of proportion and supermarket chains will play it for all it's worth. Farmers only get a few pennies out of a loaf of bread or a box of corn flakes. So those pennies will double and in reality your corn flakes shouldn't cost but a few pennies more. They also had a very good crop last year and there should be plenty of grain in storage at this time.

I'd say livestock farmers will liquidate there stock. So in therory meat prices should drop drastically for a while. Will that happen? Hard to say, they might get beef and pork dirt cheap and stick it to you at the check out counter anyway.

Remember also that if we'd just keep a short crop within our borders and didn't ship so much of it overseas we'd be fine. It's crazy, I live in farm country and I've picked up steaks from cattle raised in New Zeland at the local grocery store while in Japan someone is enjoying the grain fed beef that was raised down the road.

It's like oil. They talk about "Drill baby drill!" but a lot of the oil we produce leaves our shores."

"The corn crop in our county is terrible. The worst since '88 and that's saying something.

Remember though the media will blow this out of proportion and supermarket chains will play it for all it's worth. Farmers only get a few pennies out of a loaf of bread or a box of corn flakes. So those pennies will double and in reality your corn flakes shouldn't cost but a few pennies more. They also had a very good crop last year and there should be plenty of grain in storage at this time.

I'd say livestock farmers will liquidate there stock. So in therory meat prices should drop drastically for a while. Will that happen? Hard to say, they might get beef and pork dirt cheap and stick it to you at the check out counter anyway.

Remember also that if we'd just keep a short crop within our borders and didn't ship so much of it overseas we'd be fine. It's crazy, I live in farm country and I've picked up steaks from cattle raised in New Zeland at the local grocery store while in Japan someone is enjoying the grain fed beef that was raised down the road.

It's like oil. They talk about "Drill baby drill!" but a lot of the oil we produce leaves our shores."

"Whoever decided to use food as fuel needs a swift kick in the nutz.

I believe it takes more fossil fuel to produce ethanol than the actual amount of ethanol produced. They burn a lot of natural gas cooking that stuff not to mention all the diesel involved in putting out a crop and getting it to market.

They use a lot of corn on cattle feed lots where they fatten them up before they're slaughtered. Massive amounts of grain is fed to every kind of livestock imaginable. Turkeys, chickens, hogs, sheep ect... Hell even fish for that matter."

"Whoever decided to use food as fuel needs a swift kick in the nutz.

I believe it takes more fossil fuel to produce ethanol than the actual amount of ethanol produced. They burn a lot of natural gas cooking that stuff not to mention all the diesel involved in putting out a crop and getting it to market.

They use a lot of corn on cattle feed lots where they fatten them up before they're slaughtered. Massive amounts of grain is fed to every kind of livestock imaginable. Turkeys, chickens, hogs, sheep ect... Hell even fish for that matter."