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OldMt Woman 1 year ago.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-23/farm-crisis-corn-planting-slowest-record-time-year
The map puts it into perspective.
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Notice how most everything reported these days is a “crisis”?
Farming is a crap shoot. Every one of those states experiencing flooding has flooded before. We all survived.
I’m a bit ambivalent regarding corn, soybeans, and wheat, anyway. I hate to see the little guy get hurt financially. Most of those affected by this latest flood event are likely not “little guys”, but Big Guys, as in corporate farms. They grow that bio-engineered GMO “food” that is really suspect as to its safety for long-term consumption. (Almost all wheat, for instance, tests positive for glyphosate, the active carcinogenic ingredient in Roundup.) I realize that the ripple effect financially is likely to pass on to the rest of us at some point whether its real or engineered to soak up more of our depleting wealth. (Never let a crisis go to waste, remember!)
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Crop-tastrophe In The Midwest – Latest USDA Progress Report Signals Nightmare Scenario
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-27/crop-tastrophe-midwest-latest-usda-crop-progress-report-signals-nightmare-scenario -
Yep, sounds pretty alarming. AOC says to just grow yucca! *laugh*
No laughing matter, really, but what can be done about it? Nothing! Yes, the climate is changing and the entire globe is likely to be negatively affected if for no other reason than because the grain-growing regions that feed most of the world’s population are having a bad time of it. But it isn’t due to anything humans have done like those pea-brained radicals like Gore and his cabal are constantly raging about. We are in a solar minimum and the earth’s magnetic field is shifting. But don’t expect to hear any of that from CNN. After all, if this is naturally occurring then how can they blame humans and implement more controls on us?
“This isn’t normal” says the article linked. Well, the thermometer wasn’t invented until 1723. A short 300 years considering the age of the earth, as someone else said in the comments, is not enough time to establish whats normal. Likely some truth to that.
Here in the Blue Ridge of Virginia we have had the same weather pattern for over a year until recently. Three/four days of clouds and rain followed by one of two days of sun, often with gusting winds, repeated over and over. Less than two weeks ago my heat was on. Now its 90 degrees. I hear others say frequently, “This is just not normal”. I don’t know what normal is any more.
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In the ‘olden’ days, if it got too late to plan corn, we planted soy beans. The market was better for corn but at least a shorter-season crop brought in some income.
OldMtWoman
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