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Posted on 04/12/2022 11:00:56 AM PDT by EBH
Colorado farmer Brian Brooks will be the first to tell you farming in the southeast corner of the Centennial State isn’t for the faint of heart.
“You can see the wheat is trying and barely hanging on the roots,” says Brooks, a farmer in Baca County, Colo. “You can just tell how abusive this winter has been.”
Brooks farmer says Baca County is the epicenter of the Dust Bowl, and in an area used to arid climate, he says this winter has been nothing short of brutal.
“The last big rain event we had it was in August,” says Brooks. “There are a few guys that got wheat up when they planted early, but the dryness took it.”
Robbed of Wheat He thinks 80% of the dryland wheat in this area may not make it this year, with some acres of fall planted wheat still barren. That’s as only a trace of moisture has materialized since fall. It’s been too dry for many wheat fields to even sprout.
“We've had four-tenths of moisture this year so far, and a lot of it has come as a half of one-tenth here and there, just no large margin,” he explains. “We've had a lot of wind and it just been very destructive on everything.”
Brooks is one of many farmers facing a bleak picture in the Southern High Plains, as the lack of moisture this winter has been historic.
“If you look at the November to February period, it’s the second driest on record behind only that of 2017/2018,” says Brad Rippey, USDA meteorologist, “It's just another year that we've experienced in a string of very difficult years going back to the mid-1990s.”
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Without irrigation it has ALWAYS been too dry in that area to plant corn. Planting wheat is a crap shoot to boot. The area was made into farmland by promoters in the early part of the last century by declaration. If not for that it would still have been buffalo pasture.
Know where Felt, Oklahoma is? I know it well, can’t raise much more than a fuss there without irrigation. Beautiful empty country and best left that way.
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Agreed. Colorado is beautiful scenery -— for a climate that’s always dry.
Parts of Colorado irrigate and do grow corn .
Wheat will grow, I think, without irrigation most of the time.
But in Colorado corn would have to be irrigated .
Well well well…. I was ridiculed by some about mentioning we are headed for a very reduced food output this year. With a world wide food shortage dead ahead, don’t think the US will not experience severe crop shortages.
Freepers need to start looking at events spiritually, instead of emotionally-yes, that means starting to read Scripture…..” a days wages for a cup of wheat “ comes to mind.
I will find it ironic that Russia may very well supply us with grain, for Rubles or Gold of course. Senile Joe’s sanctions have backfired, Russia is not in need of food, oil, or commodities like we are. They are a 12 time zone self sufficient country.
Those of us watching this unfold are ahead of the game.
By mid-June most people will be starting to realize there is a real collapse of the global economy happening.
The government(s) will not be able to hide it or blame it away much longer.
And Joe Biden is putting our seed crop in to gas tanks to help his dismal approval.
I’m surprised to hear that,
Since water is abundant in the Rockies.
States need to start working on controlling their resources where possible.
Especially when it comes to water...
Start doing some research...
Winter wheat is in bad shape
California water situation in relation to the rice crop
Many farmers not planting corn due to price and switching to soy
Many FReepers are ‘not so worried,’ but there is more happening than most are aware of.
There is still time to get a home food garden plan in place, if you can do it, do so.
guess they better turn their land into raising beef instead-
Holy E15, Batman, what does this mean for famine?
Yonder across 'the Beaver' southeast of Wheeless. :) Dry all over that part of the world. Droughted out on dry land corn north of the Arkansas last year. Subsoil isn't any better right now. It has shelled out 80+ bu/acre in the past.
Those of us watching this unfold are ahead of the game.
By mid-June most people will be starting to realize there is a real collapse of the global economy happening.
The government(s) will not be able to hide it or blame it away much longer.
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I don’t like putting a time stamp on our coming problems, but we are walking dead. Weaponizing the USD just dethroned it, ( Vegetable head Biden sanctions), and caused Russia to Sanction the West. Commodities and food will skyrocket, and $7-10 trillion of USD are coming back home, I wish everyone will wake up and realize EVERYTHING vegetable head does, is backfiring, especially the Ukie war cheerleaders.
The “ hook” has been set into our jaw. Prepare accordingly.
Time to plant tepary beans. Those are adapted to desert climates.
As long as there is unnatural water you can grow stuff. Sometimes you just can’t pump it fast enough.
I saw a black bear up there once from up on a hill, he was crossing the river valley.
That run on 64/87 from Clayton to Raton past Capulin always looks like I think the West is supposed to.
Planting crops where there is no rainfall is just asking for trouble.
Since water is abundant in the Rockies.
Ummm, not where i am in western Colorado. Irrigation is expected to be marginally available.
Re: 2 - I have a friend familiar with that area (via her job in public health (she’s one of the good guys)). I texted her about that area of the Panhandle and the drought. She replied back “if you don’t irrigate, you’re growing nothing but ‘dreams.”
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