Posted on 04/30/2019 9:10:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The impact may not yet be obvious in grocery stores and greenmarkets, but behind the organic apples and bags of rice and cans of cherry pie filling are hundreds of thousands of farmers, plant breeders and others in agriculture who are scrambling to keep up with climate change.
Drop a pin anywhere on a map of the United States and you’ll find disruption in the fields. Warmer temperatures are extending growing seasons in some areas and sending a host of new pests into others. Some fields are parched with drought, others so flooded that they swallow tractors.
Decades-long patterns of frost, heat and rain - never entirely predictable but once reliable enough - have broken down. In regions where the term climate change still meets with skepticism, some simply call the weather extreme or erratic. But most agree that something unusual is happening.
“Farming is no different than gambling,” said Sarah Frey, whose collection of farms throughout the South and the Midwest grows much of the nation’s crop of watermelons and pumpkins. “You’re putting thousands if not millions of dollars into the earth and hoping nothing catastrophic happens, but it’s so much more of a gamble now. You have all of these consequences that farmers weren’t expecting.”
Because the system required to feed the country is complex and intertwined, a two- or three-week shift in a growing season can upset supply chains, labor schedules and even the hidden mechanics of agriculture, like the routes that honeybees travel to pollinate fields. Higher temperatures and altered growing seasons are making new crops possible in places where they weren’t before, but that same heat is also hurting traditional crops. Early rains, unexpected droughts and late freezes leave farmers uncertain over what comes next.
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nyt enemy islamists
In other words, how can the media drive the election conversation in favor of Democrats?
Q. What will it take for the media to focus on climate change in the 2020 elections?
A. A Death Wish
You mean, that they are not? Could have fooled me.
I live in Iowa, and i can say that Kim Everson is a retard! She has no idea how great it is here in flyover country, she speaks like its a disaster area. If it was, she wouldnt be eating her gourmet pastas and yogurts and other crap that goes in that foolish mouth.
She needs a Psych Exam, or a Drug Test, cuz she demented.
So, according to the NYT, the big problem these days is that the MSM is insufficiently focused on Climate Change? Really??
What will it take for the slimes to go bankrupt in 2020?
The Ministry of Propaganda has been relentlessly pushing the false Goebbels warming for decades, we are not buying what they are selling.
There is nothing happening weather wise that hasn’t been happening for hundreds of years!!!
A lot more of Tom Stayer's money?
More cartoons inspiring Jew haters?
Everyone should search out and watch the documentary online called “Down Wind “ about how bad wind farms are. I l couldn’t believe how bad they are.
NYT should be banned on FR.
They are insidiously evil, antisemitics...
On the whole, having more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a big benefit to agriculture. It increases yields, and helps plants use less water, which is a big benefit for the western half of the US.
For God’s sake, they have been screaming about global warming and the environment since the 70’s and nothing has changed. No unrelenting storms, no sea level rise, no dogs and cats living together in sin.
Why can’t they JSTFU and go away.
“...Why can’t they JSTFU and go away.....”
The climate activist & politician still has one hand in your pocket and wants to put in the other.
The media ....well there’s just stupid!
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