While out of town earlier this month to chase pheasants in South Dakota I couldn't help but notice all the corn in eastern South Dakota and all across Minnesota. Mile upon mile of standing corn, silage bags stuffed with hundreds of yards of corn and so much corn that the elevators have nowhere to go with it resulting in monstrous corn mountains and sometimes covered with a blue tarp.
No wonder corn prices are hitting the skids; US farmers are simply too efficient for their own good.
And I guess the problem extends to here too. From WFRV in Green Bay there is this:


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