Where, right in the middle of a very expensive 1st world section of Santiago, Chile!
The Obama administration doesn’t support farming in the US, anyway, except for industrial use. They think that all our food should be imported from third world countries.
I hear that there will be a wheat shortage due to the drought in Texas, as well.
I think that they said that the wheat crop was expected to be only 1/3 of the typical crop. The problem is not just in the US, though, but all over the world. Will the Obamamites honor contracts of sale to other countries before supplying the US demand??? I expect so.
Why are these people building or farming in a designated flood plain if they’re not expecting the periodic flood? Seems sort of silly to me.
Floods and drought both to contribute:
“But statewide, it’s a pretty grim picture,” he said. “And it’s not just Texas; it’s New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and parts of Arkansas. It’s an exceptional drought across a big area.”
Corn along the Gulf Coast is stunted and tasselling early, Miller said. “It’s in a lot trouble.”
Blacklands/Central Texas corn, though planted later, is in much the same shape, he said.
“We’re seeing leaves twisting (from heat/moisture stress) by midday,” he said.
Much of the Texas wheat crop has failed as well, Miller said.
“Probably in the order of 50 to 60 percent of the wheat crop won’t be harvested,” he said.
From a national standpoint, Texas is a “minor player” in feed grains, he said. But Texas typically plants about half the cotton acreage in the U.S., so a large-scale crop failure there could have an impact on prices, Miller said.
Cotton is typically planted later than corn, and cotton growers ran into dry soil conditions as the planting window opened. As a result, Miller said, a very small percentage of the total cotton crop, under 20 percent, has been planted to date.
http://agrilife.org/today/2011/05/10/texas-crop-weather-for-may-10-2011/
They flooded 100’s of thousand acres of crops to save a decaying town of 2500 People?? The government has gone mad!
Just priced- $44.67- for seed corn for the amount of corn for my garden at local ACE Hardware!! Silver Queen...
Better that much crops than a lot more homes and businesses.
Natural flood plains need to be respected. Building OUGHT to be restricted in them. And yes, they do make for good farm land. But yes again, they will flood from time to time.