Drought!

pgwenthold said:
Shoot, the problem with the corn around these parts of Indiana is that they tassled WAY too soon. So stressed, they basically quit growing (probably a foot short) and just started tassling. I think the plant decided that it better seed up now or it was going to be dead.

There is an old saying, corn should be "Knee high by the 4th of July." This is the second year out of three that the local corn all hit knee high by the 4th of June, but the first time I ever remember corn tassling before the 4th of July (and a lot was tassling out before July even)

The field in our back yard is firing, and yesterday's nice downpour was too little too late. Very small ears, and I don't know how much corn is on it.
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Food shortage or just high price on Jr's Cornflakes?
 
The last real rain we got here in Lakewood was during the hail storm 6 weeks ago. We've been in a drought for 3 years. We got a little break in spring....but my yard and plants are really suffering.

On a positive note, I haven't needed to mow the lawn in 3 weeks. :)
 
BenBurch said:
The article I just posted mentions the 1988 drought, since many of you were not alive yet in 1988, it needs some mention. Read the wiki on it; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_North_American_drought

In the wiki article it is called the costliest natural disaster in US history.

I think we may see that record fall.
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That wiki article is poorly worded. At the top of the page it says that the 1988 drought is second to hurricane Katrina as the costliest natural disaster in US history, and down below it says that the drought is the costliest. The Katrina wiki page says that Katrina is the costliest. :confused:

#1 or #2, it's still pretty bad. I hope we don't set a new record.

ETA: We got a lot of rainfall in the last 2 weeks in central PA. I have to mow the lawn for the first time in a month.
 
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swright777 said:
That wiki article is poorly worded. At the top of the page it says that the 1988 drought is second to hurricane Katrina as the costliest natural disaster in US history, and down below it says that the drought is the costliest. The Katrina wiki page says that Katrina is the costliest. :confused:

#1 or #2, it's still pretty bad. I hope we don't set a new record.

ETA: We got a lot of rainfall in the last 2 weeks in central PA. I have to mow the lawn for the first time in a month.
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It's Wikipedia! Feel free to fix that!
 
Oooo...there's a little cell forming to the north of us...I hope it doesn't miss us. Maybe I'll increase the chances by moving very valuable, non-waterproof items out into the lawn, and hand wax the car.
 
What is this magic? Water...it falls from the sky! I've never seen anything like this. The gods must be crying...or sweating (it's so hot)

First rain in over a month here in my neighborhood. I hope it's a soaker.
 
We drove across South Dakota eastward, it wasn't doing too badly, mostly under irrigation.

On the way back we drove across Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. That's a disaster. The last week of July, the corn is 2" high and dead. They are cutting the dead plants for silage now. No rain for 60-some days and none in sight.

I figure food prices for animal-based protein from corn fodder may double this winter.
 
I'm genuinely distressed to hear this. I need to stop complaining about the very wet summer here. It may be tedious for those of us who would like a little vitamin D, but the grass is as high as an elephant's eye.

Rolfe.
 
Macgyver1968 said:
What is this magic? Water...it falls from the sky! I've never seen anything like this. The gods must be crying...or sweating (it's so hot)

First rain in over a month here in my neighborhood. I hope it's a soaker.
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Old El Paso resident's prayer:
"Lord, let it rain soon. Not so much for me, but for the kids. I've seen rain"
 
Drought, food prices fan fears of new crisis

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012...US+/+Top+News)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

(Reuters) - Global alarm over a potential repeat of the 2008 food crisis escalated on Thursday after data showed food prices had jumped 6 percent last month and importers were snapping up a shriveled U.S. grain crop, helping drive corn prices to a new record.

The day before a critical government report on the state of the U.S. corn and soybean crops, which have been decimated by the worst drought in over five decades, the United Nation's food agency warned against the kind of export bans, tariffs and buying binges that worsened the price surge four years ago.

"There is potential for a situation to develop like we had back in 2007/08," the Food and Agriculture Organisation's senior economist and grain analyst Abdolreza Abbassian told Reuters

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