Sarah Rogers

Writer, wife to @editorjeffsir, empty-nester mom, grammar scold, reader, music listener, awkward dancer. I go to a lot of concerts; eff you, cancer.

[Sarah Rogers @Sarahwrites67]

@Kristinartz Nettie

[Sarah Rogers @Sarahwrites67]

@Spotify I love the disco ball. Can I keep it?

[Cher Springsteen 🇨🇦❤️⚓️🇺🇦 🇮🇷 🇬🇱 @CASmyth1]

@dpakman @AntiToxicPeople

[MVC Hoops @MVC_Hoops]

#ValleyBuilt anyone that watched Valley basketball is not surprised by this

[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

Stay in the know, but remember to practice self care and touch grass and seek laughter and whatnot.

[Sarah Rogers @Sarahwrites67]

@GeauxGabrielle The very best attitude.

[Sarah Rogers @Sarahwrites67]

@saniyafatma1278 A very distinguished, handsome gentleman!

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Anonymous

My 13-year-old son just said, “Mum, I think I have a good idea. The people in America protesting ICE should call themselves LAVA — Local And Very Angry. And lava melts ice. You should post that and see if it's a good idea"

We’re about as far away from the United States as you can get, here in Perth, Western Australia. But I hope the people over there know that even a young boy on the other side of the world can see when something isn’t right.

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

Yes you can come, just don't be weird.

Me:

[Home of the Brave @HOTBraveNIL]

WARNING: it might get dusty while you’re reading ⬇️

Great read from a great young man.

As we say… #OnceABraveAlwaysABrave

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

[Sarah Rogers @Sarahwrites67]

Alarming? Yes. True? 💯

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Right now, in barns and equipment sheds across the American Midwest, farmers are making the most consequential decision of this war. Not generals. Not senators. Farmers.

At $683 per ton urea, corn economics have collapsed. Nitrogen is the single largest input cost for corn production. At pre-war prices a farmer could justify 180 pounds per acre and expect a margin. At $683 the math breaks. Soybeans fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere through root bacteria. They do not need the molecule trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz. The seed decision is being made this week across roughly 90 million acres of American cropland. Once the planter rolls into the field, the choice is irreversible. Corn seed in the ground stays corn. Soy seed stays soy. The acreage allocation locks in.

USDA Prospective Plantings reports March 31. That report will tell the world how American agriculture responded to the Hormuz blockade. But the decisions it captures are being made now, in conversations between farmers and agronomists and seed dealers who are looking at nitrogen prices and making the rational economic choice: plant the crop that does not need the input you cannot afford.

Every acre that shifts from corn to soybeans tightens the corn balance sheet for the rest of the year. Corn feeds livestock. Corn feeds ethanol. The Renewable Fuel Standard mandates 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol annually, consuming roughly 43 percent of the US corn crop regardless of price. That demand is inelastic. If acres shift and production falls while the mandate holds, corn prices spike. Feed costs spike. The protein cascade reverses. The US cattle herd sits at 86.2 million head, a 75-year low. Poultry and pork margins that were benefiting from cheap feed compress when corn crosses $5 per bushel.

This is how a naval blockade 7,000 miles from Iowa reaches the American grocery shelf. Not through oil. Not through shipping. Through nitrogen. The farmer cannot afford the molecule. The molecule cannot transit the strait. The farmer plants soy instead. The corn supply tightens. The ethanol mandate consumes its fixed share. The remaining corn reprices. The feed reprices. The meat reprices. The grocery bill reprices.

The decision is not political. It is arithmetic performed on a kitchen table by a person who needs to plant in three weeks and cannot wait for a ceasefire, an escort convoy, or an insurance normalisation that the Red Sea precedent says takes years.

The deepest penetrator in the American arsenal cannot reach a sealed Iranian doctrinal packet. But the fertiliser price it failed to resolve is reaching every planting decision on 90 million acres of the most productive farmland on Earth.

The war’s most irreversible consequence is not happening in a bunker. It is happening in a barn. And by the time USDA publishes the data on March 31, the seeds will already be in the ground.

Full analysis in the link.
https://t.co/iFmUcarGdV

[Clare @Clarabell045788]

We put a man on the moon 50 years ago. Why did we stop??? We could have put them all up there by now 🥴

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

I'd rather my taxes go to free lunches for school kids than bombs dropped on other people's kids.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Seen in Boston...

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Notice how the Flag is not at half staff when US service members have died, but it was immediately lowered for a podcaster.

I hate this timeline so much.

[Sarah Rogers @Sarahwrites67]

@jackantonoff SUMMERFEST in Milwaukee!