And neither do you. The difference is that I openly admit the limits to human knowledge about future events. I continue to question your motivation, and I'd like to know why you persist in pushing misinformation. I don't intend to argue, But yes I do know about corn, quite a bit in fact, and beans and wheat, and total acreages, and spraying practices. To the tune of 1800 acres and my entire life spent in the middle of it. Your information while it may be from the USDA, its outdated and very misleading, as you don't know how to read it. Did you report the drop in Bean and wheat acres? Did you report the price spike in beans due to lost acres? Did you report the drop in price and the projected acres for this year? No. you chose to cherry pick the data. I live here. I spent 20 years designing and building combines for CNH and AGCO... I do know a bit about farming... Just a wee bit My motivation is very simple, as mentioned before. Hopefully point out the real facts and not chery pick to promote an agenda. Buy some land... farm a bit, or better yet, spend your money and buy some ground for bee food...... Or stop on by, and we can work bees and farm a bit together.... might just learn some things about how AG works here in the US.. I don't know a whole lot about Candian canola, or nuts in CA.. But I do know corn and beans and spraying here in the midwest. Charles *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html