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WIND: Your Own Utility
Farms now can become their own utility with wind energy. Power companies will work with farmers to get their feeds directly into the grid or to feed in the excess energy as a credit to their electrical use billing. If you go to this link Energy Department you will get a look at maps of your state and estimates of average wind energy available.

Nuclear Energy Alternative, Renewable?
Energy independence means displacing foreign oil for the most part. Nuclear has long been in the game for 50 years to do exactly that, as well as less enviromentally palatable coal fired plants. While coal is by no means out with "gasification", nuclear is also rejoining the debate. As we get better at safely managing nuclear plants the world has exploded in use of the "clean" silent energy source. Explore who has mastered the use of "clean" nuclear energy as part of the larger world "renewable" debate.

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Giant Corn Crop Breaks Record 1.25 Billion Bushels

Despite many challenges of weather the corn crop of 2009 will be some 50 million bushels more than the previous record of 1.2 billion. This surprising number has slumped prices in most markets...

Parts of the Midwestern states had back to back record rainfall that delayed harvests of both beans and corn. Some records for rainfall go back to the 1920. Current conditions have seen stretched delays now turned perhaps 30% loss of remaining crop still in standing in fields that might still be standing. Snows and high winds have turned to milder weather as mid January "thaw" sets in the Midwestern states. Piling of the bumper crop will now begin to load out, as more normal weather patterns emerge.

We'll wrap up stats on this one for all crops, and lament for the opportunties missed while farmers balanced cost of drying the delaying harvest to ready bankers for another year...We'll review state by state numbers this week as the record book sets to close on this one.

(CRNET Staff Report)