Corn on the Cob and the Summer of Discontent

[wordcreatorushtwf]

Anyone looking forward to corn on the cob slathered with butter this summer may find that it has become an expensive part of their diet. Or it not be available at all.

Low stocks of corn may have created a bidder war in the United States for what is available and will get even worse if China jumps into the market to purchase corn stored from the 2010 harvest.

Read more


http://www.examiner.com/watchdog-po...ob-and-the-summer-of-discontent#ixzz1NkhnIBUE

 

[Damocles]

Or you can grow your own.

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

Sweet White or Bi-Color Corn
4 for 88¢
Locally Grown

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Anyone looking forward to corn on the cob slathered with butter this summer may find that it has become an expensive part of their diet. Or it not be available at all.

Low stocks of corn may have created a bidder war in the United States for what is available and will get even worse if China jumps into the market to purchase corn stored from the 2010 harvest.

Read more


http://www.examiner.com/watchdog-po...ob-and-the-summer-of-discontent#ixzz1NkhnIBUE

/lols at the guy stupid enough to think that there's a connection between succulant corn on the cob and the prices for the last bushels of field corn from the 2010 harvest......

 

[Airstrip One]

If you buy it at a summer fair, it will be overpriced as always, being the nature of public concessions.