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In reply to the discussion: i live in farm country [View all]questionseverything
(9,687 posts)20. i get u dont understand it if u havent lived in farm country but
every year, every elevator has huge piles of corn outside waiting to be dried or shipped
these piles are like 4 football fields and 20-30 foot high, huge
it was so wet in the spring farmers planted around "puddles" so they were planting like a third of normal and now with the early cold they are harvesting less than half of that
if climate change has changed the seasons enough that we can't produce food on the massive scale we are used to , we are in trouble
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the point of my op is, we are seeing a major drop in food production this year
questionseverything
Dec 2019
#2
With so much of Australia burning, I'd say we are past the climate tipping point.
roamer65
Dec 2019
#3
What are the risk of leaving it out exposed, other than animals that eat corn? nt
Blue_true
Dec 2019
#16
that is kind of the point...the silos are still full from last year
questionseverything
Dec 2019
#18
yes more is produced than we can use here..we feed the world ya know
questionseverything
Dec 2019
#22
I live rural Arkansas. When first came here there were all kinds of farms, now all I see grass.
rickyhall
Dec 2019
#9