{"id":62264,"date":"2022-03-22T06:32:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T11:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62264"},"modified":"2022-03-22T06:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T11:32:22","slug":"severe-drought-and-dust-bowl-conditions-threaten-to-create-a-disastrous-winter-wheat-harvest-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62264","title":{"rendered":"Severe Drought And \u201cDust Bowl Conditions\u201d Threaten To Create A Disastrous Winter Wheat Harvest In The U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Severe Drought And \u201cDust Bowl Conditions\u201d Threaten To Create A Disastrous Winter Wheat Harvest In The U.S.<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Food prices in the U.S. have already been soaring, and now we are on track for an absolutely horrible winter wheat harvest.\u00a0 Of course this comes at a time when the war on the other side of the globe is going to greatly reduce wheat exports from Russia and Ukraine.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Due to extreme drought, winter wheat is in very bad shape in states such as Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.\u00a0 The following comes from\u00a0one of the most prominent agricultural websites<\/a>\u00a0in the entire country\u2026<\/p>\n

Some farmers in southwestern Kansas, the top U.S. wheat producing state, have not received much measurable rain or snow since October. 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.<\/p>\n

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. Severe drought is also covering three-quarters of Oklahoma and more than two-thirds of Texas, both of which also are large wheat producers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If that sounds really bad, that is because it is really bad.<\/p>\n

Farmers are praying for rain, because they desperately need it.<\/p>\n

That same article also discussed the fact that winter wheat was severely damaged by a wind storm\u00a0\u201cthat brought \u2018Dust Bowl\u2019 conditions to Kansas\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

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Severe Drought And \u201cDust Bowl Conditions\u201d Threaten To Create A Disastrous Winter Wheat Harvest In The U.S. Food prices in the U.S. have already been soaring, and now we are on track for an absolutely horrible winter wheat harvest.\u00a0 Of course this comes at a time when the war on the other side of the […]<\/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":[220,1912,4901,27525,827],"class_list":["post-62264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-drought","tag-food-production","tag-michael-snyder","tag-the-most-important-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62264","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=62264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62265,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62264\/revisions\/62265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}