Comments on: Stubbing the giant’s toe: thoughts on Midwestern agribusiness http://madronoranch.com/?p=336 Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:55:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Joybells http://madronoranch.com/?p=336#comment-108 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:46:14 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=336#comment-108 Can the giants understand chicken-talk? I doubt it.

Funny, I spent so much of my life driving through the vast corn, soybean, and wheat fields of the Midwest, that whenever I drive through cornfields of the DelMarVa peninsula (on our way to the Delaware shore each summer), I feel a little homesick. I don't really want to move back there, but it reminds me of thousand-mile road trips where my only responsibilities were to be relatively quiet, not spill anything, and give my parents plenty of notice when I had to pee. Ah youth!

]]> By: Tinky http://madronoranch.com/?p=336#comment-107 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:28:03 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=336#comment-107 Great essay–and the palace is clearly a work of art.

]]> By: Joslyn http://madronoranch.com/?p=336#comment-106 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:41:32 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=336#comment-106 On our round trip from Austin to South Dakota we went through Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa. I too was amazed at the endless fields of corn. All I could think was no wonder everything is made with high fructose corn syrup!!! Couldn't we use those endless crops of land for other useful fruits and vegetables.

Glad you made it back home!!!

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