Posted on 05/31/2019 10:46:26 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
AccuWeather is predicting a significant shortfall in United States corn production for 2019 as a result of continued flooding, wet weather and the upcoming forecast throughout key parts of the U.S. Corn Belt.
AccuWeather predicts corn yield will be a significant 9% lower than an earlier U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimate. The USDA predicted 14.96 billion bushels – last year’s corn yield was 14.3 billion bushels -- but a just-released AccuWeather analysis estimates this year’s total at 13.6 billion bushels.
Accuweather.
Trust but verify.
Good. Less corn to put into our gas tanks...which is the dumbest idea ever.
In reality, we could USE a bad year to get crop prices back up for corn and soybean growers.
And let’s do something that will HELP our Dairy Farmers!
There was a similar article on WeatherChannel.com, but they blamed it on “global warming”. Surprised they didn’t blame it on Trump.
That’s what the farms around here, Southcentral PA, look like. The Midwest has had it 10x worse, this spring.
+1.
Half our breadbasket is under floodwaters, and they’re predicting a reduced crop yield?
Not much gets past these guys...
Sounds like an opportunity to repeal the ethanol mandate.
It’s gonna get nasty very very nasty.
Marantha!!!
Accuweather
Based in State College, PA.
The town that brought you Jerry Sandusky
and the Hockey Stick Graph.
Ping
Hundreds of acres of cropland will not be planted because it is underwater. By the time it would dry enough to get tractors and planters on it, it will be too late for corn to mature before the first freeze.
The Chinese picked a really bad year to boycott American ag commodities.
But is everyone sure they got the right crop report?
Here in South Carolina we haven’t had hardly any rain at all in weeks Temps stays in the 90’s and 100’s.
“Half our breadbasket is under floodwaters, and they’re predicting a reduced crop yield?
Not much gets past these guys...”
LOL, I was thinking the same thing. You don’t need a degree in Ag Economics or Meteorology to figure that out!
“TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!”
Same here in Alabama. The rain was great and regular, temperatures cool to mild, all Winter through Spring, and then two weeks ago, boom—middle of August!
“By the time it would dry enough to get tractors and planters on it, it will be too late for corn to mature before the first freeze.”
There is what is unscientifically referred to 90-day corn. Some farmers could still get a crop planted - but the yields are not that good.
We can send the 4th Mobile Redistribution Army up into Canada and take their stuff.
The UN should be cool with that. They’re into redistribution and such.
Parts of Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri have been hammered by flooding. I-29 between Omaha and Kansas City has been closed much of the last three months. The area is a complete washout. Grain silos burst because wet grain expanded. Buildings destroyed.
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