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50 % of Corn Harvest is being Threaten by Major Freeze Warnings
serf
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If it comes to pass then we could have a problem with food inflation which would include beef cattle! I bet the speculators are already bidding it up. Let's hope they can get it all in storges ASAP.
serf
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/record-low-temps-of-up-to-45-below-zero-threaten-to-absolutely-wreck-the-rest-of-the-harvest-season
All-time record lows for the month of October are being set in city after city, and this extremely cold air is going to push into the Midwest by the end of the week. Temperatures in the heartland will be up to 50 degrees below normal, and unfortunately about half of all corn still has not been harvested. Due to unprecedented rainfall and extreme flooding early in the year, many farmers faced extraordinary delays in getting their crops planted, and so they were hoping that good weather at the end of the season would provide time for the crops to fully mature and be harvested. Unfortunately, a nightmare scenario has materialized instead. A couple of monster snow storms have already roared through the Midwest, and now record low temperatures threaten to absolutely wreck the rest of the harvest season.
serf
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/record-low-temps-of-up-to-45-below-zero-threaten-to-absolutely-wreck-the-rest-of-the-harvest-season
All-time record lows for the month of October are being set in city after city, and this extremely cold air is going to push into the Midwest by the end of the week. Temperatures in the heartland will be up to 50 degrees below normal, and unfortunately about half of all corn still has not been harvested. Due to unprecedented rainfall and extreme flooding early in the year, many farmers faced extraordinary delays in getting their crops planted, and so they were hoping that good weather at the end of the season would provide time for the crops to fully mature and be harvested. Unfortunately, a nightmare scenario has materialized instead. A couple of monster snow storms have already roared through the Midwest, and now record low temperatures threaten to absolutely wreck the rest of the harvest season.
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Harvest is in full swing, here. Snow doesn?t even slow ?em down
yep, I'm yelling.
Yep, hot dry weather here led to an early harvest start as corn dried down.
But getting an early frost before the grain is ripe is one of the big risks farmers take. Corn will still look good from the road but when the combines hit the field there just isn't much grain.
And as usual, one post and he's gone.
Now with "shortage" on corn I'd be more worried about the drinking booze going up.
When I was a kid in the 60"s, we shelled hundreds of acres of corn starting around Thanksgiving. No one had crop dryers, 4-wheel drive combines, etc.
We had to wait until the ground was frozen enough to hold up a single axel truck in the field.
Cold weather will actually facilitate harvest in most areas as has been stated. SNOW and above freezing temps is NOT a good combination. Soft snow will not "blow out" the back of combines and the flow of cold air generated by the combines' separators causes the soggy snow/chaff mess to freeze inside the machine. THAT stops everything dead or sends the threshed grain out the back of the machine onto the ground.
The wet snow event has or will cause serious losses to some soybean fields as the heavy snow load breaks stems and causes the crop to lay down making it unharvestable.
THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^ IS EXACTLY TRUE !!
But, It is a son-of-a-gun when combining corn and the combine gets stuck in the snow.
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
What's causing global cooling and the resulting ice age ???? GLOBAL WARMING and of course TRUMP.
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