Nebraska to Texas is currently in a drought, so what? Other rural areas are not. When they are, the plains will be in rain.
So, do you have other inanities to contribute?
And please be sure to provide those figures about the % of food for urban populations grown "inside the beltway."
I'm really eager to read that report.
Yeah, let’s see all the crops the Amish youth are growing in PG County.
The ground squirrels prosper, and breed, and have vast numbers of young. Then the hanta virus spreads through the ground squirrels and begins infecting the larger mamals, including man, and entire civilizations collapse in a week with a 95% death rate.
That used to be the history of North America with this type of drought. Now we have housecats killing off those squirrels.
The last major hanta outbreak was 1646. Before that winter the Indian tribes were a power to be reckoned with in New England. After that winter the Indian tribes were a hollow shell of their previous manifestation, and began working as professional meat hunters for white people. The white folks, in fact, needed to be replenished and labor brokers became much more important than the Indians.
So, there are other places without drought ~ look at http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/12_week.gif and tell me where the Corn Belt was relocated ~ perhaps ~ that's a 12 month review BTW, so you can see how the drought grew.
Based on personal observation, we lost about 1/3 of the crops this season.
Is it enought to hurt, and possibly higher food costs because of supply and demand? Yes.
Is it going to put the USA into starvation mode? No.
