{"id":44908,"date":"2019-03-30T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44908"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:50:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:50:36","slug":"midwest-apocalypse-according-to-satellite-data-at-least-1-million-acres-of-u-s-farmland-have-been-devastated-by-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44908","title":{"rendered":"Midwest Apocalypse: According To Satellite Data, \u201cAt Least 1 Million Acres Of U.S. Farmland\u201d Have Been Devastated By Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/midwest-apocalypse-according-to-satellite-data-at-least-1-million-acres-of-u-s-farmland-have-been-devastated-by-floods\">Midwest Apocalypse: According To Satellite Data, \u201cAt Least 1 Million Acres Of U.S. Farmland\u201d Have Been Devastated By Floods<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Nebraska-Flooding-2-YouTube-Screenshot-540x304.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15138\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We have never seen anything like this before.&nbsp; According to satellite data that was just released by Reuters, \u201cat least 1 million acres of U.S. farmland\u201d were covered by water for at least seven days this month.&nbsp; That is an agricultural disaster without equal in modern American history, and yet the mainstream media is treating this like it is some sort of second class story.&nbsp; It isn\u2019t.&nbsp; This is the biggest news story of 2019 so far, and people want to know what is going on.&nbsp; A few days ago, I posted a story entitled&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/as-many-as-a-million-calves-lost-in-nebraska-beef-prices-in-the-u-s-to-escalate-dramatically-in-the-coming-months\">\u2018\u201cAs Many As A Million Calves Lost In Nebraska\u201d \u2013 Beef Prices In The U.S. To Escalate Dramatically In The Coming Months\u2019<\/a>, and it has already been shared on social media more than 145,000 times.&nbsp; Farming communities all over the central part of the nation now look like war zones as a result of all this flooding, but the media elites on the east and west coasts don\u2019t want to write about it.&nbsp; And with more flooding on the way&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/200-million-people-at-risk-national-weather-service-warns-apocalyptic-midwest-floods-are-a-preview-of-what-we-expect-throughout-the-rest-of-the-spring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for the next two months<\/a>, this crisis is only going to get worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the time of year when farmers are gearing up to plant wheat, corn and soybeans, and now a substantial portion of our farmland will not be able to be used at all this year.&nbsp; According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/exclusive-more-than-1-million-acres-of-us-cropland-ravaged-by-floods\/ar-BBVoRKX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters<\/a>, at least a million acres of farmland were covered by floodwaters for at least seven days this month, and that \u201cwill likely reduce corn, wheat and soy production this year\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>At least 1 million acres (405,000 hectares) of U.S. farmland were flooded<\/strong>\u00a0after the \u201cbomb cyclone\u201d storm left wide swaths of nine major grain producing states under water this month, satellite data analyzed by Gro Intelligence for Reuters showed.<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midwest Apocalypse: According To Satellite Data, \u201cAt Least 1 Million Acres Of U.S. Farmland\u201d Have Been Devastated By Floods We have never seen anything like this before.&nbsp; According to satellite data that was just released by Reuters, \u201cat least 1 million acres of U.S. farmland\u201d were covered by water for at least seven days this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[299,1001,25464],"class_list":["post-44908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-farming","tag-flooding","tag-midwest-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44909,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44908\/revisions\/44909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}