Minnesota's soybean and corn farmers race against coming frost - TwinCities.com

Growing crops in Minnesota is often a race against frost.

This year, the slow-maturing fields of soybeans and corn are prompting nervousness about who will win the race.

When temperatures fell to 33 degrees Sunday in Embarrass, Minn., it gave grain traders one more reason to be anxious about the potential for an early frost. Cooler-than-usual temperatures have been the rule this summer, and that is forecast to continue over the next two weeks, the National Weather Service said.
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The USDA's weekly crop report Monday showed the Minnesota picture. Just 23 percent of the state's corn crop has reached the dough stage of development, when kernels are being filled, well short of the usual 62 percent.

Waxman 'town hall' anything but open

A small grassroots group of conservatives turned out Friday at UCLA to let Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Van Nuys, know that they oppose congressional plans for a global warming tax on businesses and to take over the nation's health care system, but Waxman wasn't listening.

Holding a selectively advertised "town hall" meeting where all the seats were reserved and several participants later said they had to submit to a questionnaire intended to screen audience members, Waxman apparently didn't care to hear any opposing views on the "cap-and-trade" bill that would require businesses to pay a tax or buy "carbon credits" if they don't match federal pollution standards based on global warming fears.

The American Spectator : The Collapse of Obama's Hot Air Balloon

...Plus another trillion or so in projected costs for Obama's cap-and-trade scheme in order to slow down the "crisis" of global warming, disregarding the fact that things have been cooling down for a decade.

Cap-and-Trade Town Hall to Be Held in Huntington Tuesday Evening - WOWK-TV - WOWKTV.com

HUNTINGTON -- Plans by Congress to institute a cap-and-trade system will be the subject of a town hall meeting in Huntington Tuesday evening.

The West Virginia Conservative Foundation is holding the meeting in the Alumni Lounge at Marshall University's Memorial Student Center.