Posted on 04/13/2021 6:31:33 AM PDT by mylife
Do you want fries with that? Potatoes are a very popular side dish.
The most common potato variety is the Russet Burbank, which is mainly grown in the Pacific Northwest. But as the climate there gets warmer and drier, growing these tubers may become more difficult.
Richard Novy is with the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Idaho. He says to water their crops, many farmers in his state depend on mountain snowpack, which melts slowly throughout the growing season.
“And so if we have less snowfall up in the mountains or earlier melting of that snowpack, that can impact our irrigation going into the future,” he says.
Hot, dry weather can reduce farmers’ yields. And it can make the potatoes grow unattractive bumps.
Novy says another risk posed by rising temperatures is that more of the potatoes’ starch content will convert to sugar.
“Then when you fry that tuber,” he says, “you’ll get a very dark potato chip or a dark french fry, so not desirable by most consumers.”
To help the industry adapt, Novy and other scientists have been developing new, more resilient potato varieties.
So even as the climate changes, diners can continue to order fries with that.
Plenty of good looking russets for sale here in upstate NY.
If, if, if, if, if...
That’s about all I read in the article - many speculations, most if not all of which are so obvious as to make me think, ‘well, duh!’
Maybe God is trying to tell you something.....................
So, none of this has actually happened, but when it does they’re ready...
Novy says another risk posed by rising temperatures is that more of the potatoes’ starch content will convert to sugar.
“Then when you fry that tuber,” he says, “you’ll get a very dark potato chip or a dark french fry, so not desirable by most consumers.”
explain the popularity of sweet potato fries Yale boy...
But will they be able to grow potatoes when the cooling effects from the current Solar Minimum are in full force?? Will they still call it Global Warming when the ground is frozen over in June??
Go Fun OFF!
Is it still cheaper to ship a potato from China then one from Idaho?
The headline says, “Climate change IS making it harder to grow potatoes”. The text says, “But as the climate there gets warmer and drier, growing these tubers MAY become more difficult.”
See how this works?
“Is it still cheaper to ship a potato from China then one from Idaho?”
Who knows...
Every summer in Manhattan, MT lines of semi trucks with Idaho license plates line up to have their empty hopers filled with Montana grown seed potatoes.
There are NO Chinese trucks in these lines...
The money quote:
“But new varieties are helping farmers adapt”
THAT - adaptation - is 100% the natural world’s and the human ANTIDOTE to the alarmists.
LIFE will adapt, and so can we. In fact we have never in human existence been more capable, technologically, to adapt to “climate change” than humans ever have been.
I recently noted how certain plant and animal species are finding more “green pastures” in lands north of where they have “normally” been found.
Now while I recognize that does “change” the “ecosystem” in places, the alarmist message is that it “destroys” the “ecosystem”. No it does not. Two things happen. (A) Some species advance and some species decline. And (B) some species adapt and remain viable right where they are. [I expect Polar Bears can adapt, and their children might gradually even lose the degree their fur is “white”, fitting in with a more often green & brown arctic if they must, but scientists will still know them, genetically, as the “polar bear”.)
Potato planting season is way behind because of the snow they are still getting. Facts don’t matter anymore.
“May become...” “If we...” The usual scare=mongering.
Then make vodka.
“Drier” also means gubmint/activists are closing off irrigation sources (because of Mother earth, ya’ know).
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