“Disaster in the Heartland: Wheat Crops in Kansas Are Failing on a Massive Scale”
FAKE NEWS!!! They’re not blaming it on Putin. Expect an update once the Administration gets wind of the story.
At this point, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is telling us that 41 percent of all wheat in Kansas is in “poor” or “very poor” condition.
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For this administration, the important thing is knowing what Kansas wheat’s pronouns are.
Control the food, control the people
Our more successful farmers in LA (lower Alabama) are irrigating crops at considerable expense. The rest are often “insurance farmers”, they are paid to fail.
Capitalism has made the climate gluten-intolerant?
Droughts are caused by environmental cooling, not warming.
Warming causes more water to evaporate and eventually rain down.
A major factor in the Great Depression, and one that is not much examined any more, is the fact that a widespread drought was also occurring in the western plains, and the Dust Bowl was one of the results, as marginal land that had been forced into farming no longer got the natural moisture to sustain its function. That in turn caused a great migration within the US, and considerable development of forms of irrigation and farmland utilization. Conservation, they called it, and it was a mighty force to stave off the very worst of the collapse of agriculture, but then, the philosophy took a nasty little turn, and “conservation” became the locking up of natural resources “for the future”.
A future that was miserly, marked by hoarding and artificial scarcities, until very little was allowed to be dribbled out, permitting a meager existence but no growth.
We cut our wheat Monday on our NW Oklahoma farm. We lucked out and got a good crop. The area hasn’t had any widespread rain since March. But, our farm managed to get enough spotty showers to carry it through. Many other farms in NW OK lost their crop though. It was not a good year. Not much wheat sitting in the silos. Now comes the waiting game watching the wheat price and knowing when to sell it.
No Communist country can feed its self. There is always a drought or some other ‘out of our control emergency’ that causes the wheat crop to fail.
This was said during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression.
They are spraying the skies and interfering with nature.
Kansas wheat quality expected to be high despite drop in yield after yearslong drought
LAWRENCE — Kansas’ wheat quality is estimated to be above average and high in protein this year because of a lack of rain, according to Farmers Business Network’s senior commodity analyst Rejeana Gvillo.
Such findings from a mid-May wheat tour through Kansas conducted by the Wheat Quality Council are the good news. The bad news is an estimated 100 million bushel drop in wheat yield production for the state, according to U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall as he testified before the Senate Agriculture Committee in Washington, D.C., last week.
“I think that about 30% of our average yield is going to be impacted by drought this year,” Marshall said. “That’s a value of over a billion dollars to the state of Kansas.”
A persistent La Niña weather pattern that has failed to give way over the past three years facilitates hotter and drier weather conditions for the United States’ key production areas, according to Gvillo.
On the other hand, the dry weather has produced perfect conditions for little pest and fungus damage, resulting in higher quality wheat. Millers tend to pay more for higher quality wheat, according to Kansas State University.
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FWIW, the wheat fields around me (Wichita area) are doing well. My wheat farmer brother got 60 bushels/acre, which is darn good. Sold it for over $10/bushel, so he came out good this year.
KANSAS CROP PROGRESS AND CONDITION
Winter wheat condition rated 16% very poor, 24% poor, 33% fair, 25% good, and 2% excellent. Winter wheat coloring was 94%, near 90% last year. Mature was 70%, ahead of 54% last year and 56% for the five-year average. Harvested was 27%, ahead of 11% last year and 18% average.
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among My people, if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
All part of the Tribulation; War, Pestilence, Disease and Famine.