Winter wheat harvest collapse imminent amid ongoing drought
Mar 24, 2022 16:38:27 GMT -5
Post by OmegaMan on Mar 24, 2022 16:38:27 GMT -5
Winter wheat harvest collapse imminent amid ongoing severe drought as “dust bowl conditions” persist
Thursday, March 24, 2022 by: JD Heyes
Tags: Bidenflation, Climate, Drought, environment, FAO, food collapse, Food Price Index, food shortage, food supply, grocery, harvest, Inflation, price increase, products, Russia, starvation, supply chain crisis, Ukraine, winter wheat, World War III
(Natural News) Even as the global supply chain crisis continues to worsen due to a series of geopolitical events, war and bad policies involving Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), the U.S., considered the world’s breadbasket by many, is in for hard times regarding food security.
Prices of food – like everything else, thanks to “Bidenflation” – have been trending upward for a year, but they are now on track to climb even higher because of a very bad winter wheat harvest. When combined with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – two of the world’s leading wheat, grain, oats and barley producers – Americans and Europeans are in for hikes in food prices like nothing they’ve seen in their lifetimes.
As reported by the Most Important News: “Over the last 12 months, the price of wheat has already risen 69 percent, and now this crisis threatens to go to an entirely new level. In all my years of writing, I have never seen anything like this, and I am deeply concerned about what the months ahead will bring. Due to extreme drought, winter wheat is in very bad shape in states such as Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.”
“Some farmers in southwestern Kansas, the top U.S. wheat-producing state, have not received much measurable rain or snow since October,” agricultural news site AgWeb reported this week. “Winter wheat is planted in autumn, lays dormant in winter and begins sending up green shoots in spring. Proper soil moisture is critical at this stage for the crop to thrive.”
“More than half of Kansas was classified as under severe drought or worse as of March 8, the driest conditions since 2018, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center,” the AgWeb report continued. “Severe drought is also covering three-quarters of Oklahoma and more than two-thirds of Texas, both of which also are large wheat producers.”
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Thursday, March 24, 2022 by: JD Heyes
Tags: Bidenflation, Climate, Drought, environment, FAO, food collapse, Food Price Index, food shortage, food supply, grocery, harvest, Inflation, price increase, products, Russia, starvation, supply chain crisis, Ukraine, winter wheat, World War III
(Natural News) Even as the global supply chain crisis continues to worsen due to a series of geopolitical events, war and bad policies involving Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), the U.S., considered the world’s breadbasket by many, is in for hard times regarding food security.
Prices of food – like everything else, thanks to “Bidenflation” – have been trending upward for a year, but they are now on track to climb even higher because of a very bad winter wheat harvest. When combined with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – two of the world’s leading wheat, grain, oats and barley producers – Americans and Europeans are in for hikes in food prices like nothing they’ve seen in their lifetimes.
As reported by the Most Important News: “Over the last 12 months, the price of wheat has already risen 69 percent, and now this crisis threatens to go to an entirely new level. In all my years of writing, I have never seen anything like this, and I am deeply concerned about what the months ahead will bring. Due to extreme drought, winter wheat is in very bad shape in states such as Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.”
“Some farmers in southwestern Kansas, the top U.S. wheat-producing state, have not received much measurable rain or snow since October,” agricultural news site AgWeb reported this week. “Winter wheat is planted in autumn, lays dormant in winter and begins sending up green shoots in spring. Proper soil moisture is critical at this stage for the crop to thrive.”
“More than half of Kansas was classified as under severe drought or worse as of March 8, the driest conditions since 2018, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center,” the AgWeb report continued. “Severe drought is also covering three-quarters of Oklahoma and more than two-thirds of Texas, both of which also are large wheat producers.”
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