US Farmers Plant Fewest Wheat Acres Since 1913

[April]

Quote:A government report shows the nation's farmers planted the fewest winter wheat acres this season since 1913.

The Agriculture Department reported Tuesday that the total acres of winter wheat for 2010 is 37.1 million acres, down 14 percent nationwide from last year.

The agency blames poor weather, low prices and the late row crop harvest for the decrease.

The largest acreage decreases are in Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma and Texas. A record low planting was reported in Nebraska.

Kansas, the nation's largest winter wheat producer, planted 8.6 million acres, down 8 percent from a year ago. It is the lowest planted wheat acreage in the state since 1957.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9541856

[FastTadpole]

Sounds like a Stalin principle in the making - control a populace via their stomachs. Monopolization of the food industry (GMs + Monsanto), green/food taxes, artificial and arable land grab via bio-fuels. Stalin simply guarded the silos from an unarmed public and redistributed the food to other sectors through socialism, this is a more scientific and covert approach.