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Which quarter pound of cornflakes in my cereal is from Ohio corn and which quarter pound is from Aledo area corn, BDI, if accounted for from seed to the table? Where might one find such accounting records? Then we have the whole corn meal issue....oh, God. It just never stops!!!

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Which quarter pound of cornflakes in my cereal is from Ohio corn and which quarter pound is from Aledo area corn, BDI, if accounted for from seed to the table? Where might one find such accounting records? Then we have the whole corn meal issue....oh, God. It just never stops!!!


I know,

I guess mallory was in a mood. I think it was how do we know what was corn from where. I suppose you just don't know in the long run. But if you, the farmer are concerned with that as far as it goes from the field to the table, it would have ti be an accounting issue per farm- is my point. But---aw heck it's already pointless. I just know that when we fed our stock it was our grain and our head. So we knew what went to where and from where it came. If you compound those records the trail has a beginning and finally an end.

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I'm taking a poll.

 

If you were to try to determine the percentage of corn shipped from New Orleans that originated in Iowa, which would you do?

 

A.  Measure it as it was loaded on the barges or train cars as it left Iowa for New Orleans?

 

B. Wait until it was loaded on a ship cruising through the Gulf to some distant country and try to sort it out?

 


I don't see any poll results. Guess mallcontent won't be working for Zogby anytime soon. Alas; as I was eating my cornflakes this morning, I had a distinct twinge of Ohio corn on my tongue. But then I read the box. It wasn't packaged in Ohio. mmmmmmmhhhhhh? Then I read that it contained high fructose corn syrup. The corn syrup almost certainly tasted like it was from upsate New York or Eastern Pennsylvania. But then I remember seeing those huge piles of corn on the ground at elevators right after harvest time. Maybe I was just tasting parking lot after all.

BDI is apparently the only one here smart enough to figure it out.   Not surprising given all that nonsense about nitrogen. 

BS, we were discussing corn exports through New Orleans.   Corn flakes in Ohio and syrup from anyplace don't matter.   Not cute.

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