This is not enough to make me an expert, but here's my report.

The agriculture system on planet earth is in BIG trouble.  Yes, yields have increased from around 35 to 225 bushels of corn per acre in my lifetime but these gains have come at horrific costs in soil erosion, depleted aquifers, the dead zone off Louisiana, etc.  The idea that there is another six-fold productivity increase using any imaginable methods is insane.

THEN there is the ruination of PRIME agricultural land for shitbox housing.  We are some of the most guilty people on earth around here.

THEN we have built only god knows how many oversized ethanol plants.  I recently heard a guy say that we have already committed the corn crops of Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska to running our cars.

Save your skepticism for subjects MUCH more likely to need it.


"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

But I also said there are people, one way or another, playing the market. That may include banging the media drum.