Text 28902, 103 rader
Skriven 2012-08-29 15:36:00 av DAVE DRUM (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: Drought
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-=> Glen Jamieson wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 GJ> With the high prices resulting from the Russian short-fall, any grain
 GJ> farmers who have a reasonable crop will do well.

 DD> But, the corn crop is in the porcelain convenience for this year - even
 DD> in fields under irrigation

 GJ> If irrigated, why the failure?

In most of the fields there has been insufficient water available to do the job
properly. Mr. Farmer has to wait until the aquifer re-fills his well ... then
he squirts it on the crops until he runs out.
 
 DD> basis and it is a sad sight to see fields of corn less than waist high
 DD> already gone brown and dead. As a result, corn, which was around
 DD> U$2.50/bushel, was getting offers of U$8.62/bushel at a rail terminal
 DD> facility I pass by often.

 GJ> The feed-lot cattle raisers must be desperate to pay that price.

They (mostly) do not feed straight corn. Rather silage of some sort sweetened
with corn - so that $8 corn goes a lot further than the average layman would
expect. Still, the price of feed is on the march upward. Along with food prices
to the consumer. 
 
 DD> Farmers like the $8 corn. They don't like the knowledge that it will
 DD> soon run out and unless we get a good, wet winter and spring and
 DD> reasonable rains they won't be able to make a crop next year.

 GJ> Any long-range forecasts for next crop?

I will quote the line from the old television series "Hee Haw" -- "Gloom,
despair, and misery. Deep, dark depression, and agony on me."

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Barbecued Beef Roll
 Categories: Beef, Vegetables, Cheese, Chilies
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
      1 kg Full Cut Round Steak; 2cm
           - (3/4") thick
    3/4 c  Catsup
    1/3 c  Chilli sauce
    1/4 c  Brown sugar
    1/4 c  Wine vinegar
      2 tb Steak sauce
    1/2 ts Cumin
    1/2 ts Chilli spice mix
      1 ts Papain; (meat tenderizer)
    1/2 ts (ea) Salt & pepper
    3/4 c  Shredded Cheddar cheese
    1/4 c  Whole kernel corn
    1/4 c  Chopped green pepper
    1/4 c  Chopped pitted ripe olives
    1/2 c  Unbleached all-purpose Flour
      3 tb Oil
    1/4 c  Water
    1/4 c  Shredded Cheddar cheese
      2 tb Sliced pitted ripe olives
      3    Tomato roses
           Green pepper slices
 
  Combine catsup, chilli sauce, brown sugar, wine vinegar,
  steak sauce, cumin and chilli spice in small saucepan;
  cook slowly 20 minutes. 

  Meanwhile, remove bone from round steak; sprinkle with
  tenderizer, salt and pepper and pound with mallet. Brush
  top of steak with 1/2 cup barbecue sauce. 

  Sprinkle with 3/4 c shredded Cheddar cheese, corn, green
  pepper and 1/4 cup sliced ripe olives. Beginning with long
  side, roll steak tightly and tie with string. Dredge steak
  roll in flour, brown lightly in cooking oil in electric
  frying pan. Pour remaining barbecue sauce and water over
  steak. Cover tightly and cook slowly for 1 1/2 hours or
  until meat is tender.

  During last 5 minutes of cooking time, remove strings and
  sprinkle top of meat with 1/4 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
  and 2 T sliced ripe olives. Place steak roll on warm
  serving platter. Garnish with tomato roses. Place green
  pepper slices around roses for leaf effect. Serve
  remaining barbecue sauce with beef roll. 

  NOTE: Tomato Roses: Using 3 tomatoes, pare each with a
  very sharp knife, starting at the rounded top and
  continuing in a circular manner around the tomato to
  obtain a strip of peel approximately 10 inches long and 1
  inch wide. (Pare off only the skin.) Wrap one end of one
  strip around tip of index finger. Continue wrapping,
  forming the petals of a rose. Gently lift tomato rose from
  finger tip to serving platter. Repeat for other roses.

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives
 
MMMMM

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