Monday, March 18, 2019, T+75, Part 2 -- Beto Sets Capitalist Fund-Raising Record

Record year for North Dakota oil? Yup -- but this time, canola oil. LOL. From The Bismarck Tribune, data points:

• North Dakota: #1 one in canola (also #1 in nuclear weapons; honey; some varieties of wheat; some varieties of legumes, and, occasionally in #1 in common sense); 
• canola in North Dakota:
• 2018: a record average yield of 1,960 pounds -- let's round that to 2,000 pounds -- that would be a ton -- of canola per acre
• the state, 2018: a record 3.1 billion pounds, up 24% from 2017
• but look at this, North Dakota produced a whopping 88% of the total US canola production of 3.6 billion pounds
• canola fares best in cool conditions; so it's popular in North Dakota, especially the northern part of the state
• some fields yielded 3,000 pounds or more per acre
• canola: first produced in Canada in 1974
• historically found in northwestern North Dakota, but now, with a canola processing plant in northwestern Minnesota, more farmers in northeastern North Dakota are planing canol
• with poor prices for soybeans, more farmers could switch to canola
• but with strong correlation between soybeans and canola, the price of the latter not particularly attractive, either
• much more at the link: Willie Nelson's bus can run on canola oil.

Monday, March 18, 2019, T+75: Beto says he set fund-raising record -- says he raised $6.1 million in first 24 hours after announcement. Previous record: crazy Bernie, the socialist, raised $5.3 million in the first 24 hours. Now it's Biden's turn.

Floods: apparently the rise of the Atlantic Ocean pushed back into the Gulf of Mexico, pushing back on the Mississippi River, up to the Missouri River, and now we have record floods in Nebraska. The governor of Nebraska was on the radio today suggesting that the current floods in Nebraska are the worst on record, going back all the way to .... the 1960s.

See this Greenpeace link, trying to erase their history.

Have You Seen The Rain? CCR