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Well, its too late this summer to tear up my lawn and put in a field of wheat and corn but every time I go to the grocery store I wish it wasn’t.  The price of every major grain is rising to record levels.  Two main things are causing this-extreme weather and vegetable based alternative fuels.

Cheap corn and wheat price spikes are not expected to end anytime soon.  Also soybeans (another biofuel crop), barley, oats, rice, sunflowers and lentils are getting way more expensive rapidly.

Try making a meal without any of these products and although American shoppers are feeling the pinch the greater concern is mass starvation as the world’s poor find it harder to afford or even find food.

Rioting over a life-sustaining bowl of grain is becoming a way of life in some of the poorest parts of the world.  Haiti, Egypt, Kenya, India, Brazil, Argentina and Indonesia are all showing the alarming stress of tight food supplies.  India, Vietnam and Thailand have restricted their rice exports to ensure that they can feed their people first.

100 million poor people around the world are feeling this food crisis and even Americans are beginning to experience food rationing because major retailers on the East and West coasts are limiting the purchases of flour, rice and cooking oil as supplies dwindle because people are stockpiling.

Next summer I’m afraid I might be looking at my green lawn a little differently.