World braced for new food crisis

Financial Times ^ | July 19, 2012 | Jack Farchy and Gregory Meyer

[HereInTheHeartland]

Next week (actually starting tomorrow) will be very critical and maybe very devastating.

104 degrees forecast high for Des Moines on Tuesday. It just doesn't hit those temps here. No rain forecast and the soil is dry.

The corn and bean crops could take the heat if there was water in the soil to draw on, but that isn't he case

We don't lose crops in Iowa, we are the stable area. Crops are lost in other areas, but not Iowa. This may get very bad.

I am seeing trees losing all their leaves, another thing you just don't see here.