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Illinois soybean farmer witnesses effects of climate change in ruined crops
CBS "News" ^ | November 26, 2018

Posted on 11/26/2018 10:32:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

89.14 MILLION acres of soybeans planted in the US for 2018 and this guy’s 20 acres got too wet.

Garbage journalism for dumborats.


61 posted on 11/26/2018 11:31:35 AM PST by Valpal1
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To: rarestia

I’ve successfully harvested every crop before this year.
Never had a year as wet in the fall as this one.


62 posted on 11/26/2018 11:33:15 AM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Pumpkin futures

https://youtu.be/3w5D9yJUMOc


63 posted on 11/26/2018 11:34:42 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: rarestia

The moron likely had crop insurance which mitigated his losses nicely.


64 posted on 11/26/2018 11:34:59 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We live in rural Indiana. Soybeans have all been harvested.

Farmer Doofus likely let his crop sit...so he could run and cry to See B S. Fake Ass news. Union boss shill.


65 posted on 11/26/2018 11:38:05 AM PST by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Farmers have never had to contend with vagaries of weather before- or have they?


66 posted on 11/26/2018 11:40:09 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“And what’s worse, the 67-year-old farmer says he doesn’t need a Ph.D. to know that things have changed. ‘When we have a rain event, we’re not getting an inch; we’re getting two and three and four inches,’ Benham said. “It doesn’t take a scientist to know you have a problem. It’s what I’m experiencing.’ “

It is time to remind readers and “journalists” that anectodal experiences/claims are not scientific evidence/proof.


67 posted on 11/26/2018 11:44:16 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

The good news is that will no longer have to, once we tax industry enough.


68 posted on 11/26/2018 11:45:03 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: wbarmy

The article does not read that his entire crop was 20 acres only that 20 acres of crop were ruined. But you are right that if it is only 20 acres he has a hobby garden not a farm.


69 posted on 11/26/2018 11:45:57 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Farmer Dean

I hope you can recover from the loss of crop yield. I don’t farm but I imagine every bit makes a difference in the bottom line.


70 posted on 11/26/2018 11:51:29 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Farmer Dean

Sorry to hear you had a rain-out. Bummer. Better success next year.

The scientists have seen eensy weensy warming (much of it due to mitigation of particulate pollution) and the farmers have seen how the earth adjusts to this. More water evaporates from oceans and it rains harder, while showing more cloud cover that shields from sunlight.


71 posted on 11/26/2018 11:57:54 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone tell these Climate Change idiots that it is worse than they thought! Here we are drowning in torrential rains in North Texas, and yet four years ago we had a drought! Hell, less than 100 years ago, we had a Dust Bowl! These rains MUST be caused by Climate Change, right?

These people are EFFING IDIOTS, who will buy anything, so long as the Government sold it to them! People who believe in “Climate Change” are the living embodiment of the old saying, “Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining!”

Climate Change is nothing more than a means to collect as much wealth from the willing and gullible! There is no machine or means to change the weather (we humans are too infinitesimal to this great planet)!! These same people will be begging for money to stop the Sun from becoming a red-giant, and those left alive after that, will be begging for money to stop the Sun from becoming a white-dwarf!

NOTE: NO AMOUNT OF MONEY WILL EVER MAKE HUMANS ABLE TO CONTROL THINGS NOT WITHIN THEIR CONTROL - PERIOD!!


72 posted on 11/26/2018 11:59:55 AM PST by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated!)
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To: lastchance

Sounds like it was an area that was scheduled to be harvested last, but oh bummer, it rained hard and couldn’t be.

Old Mac Donald never had a rainout?


73 posted on 11/26/2018 12:00:03 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: ExTxMarine

It’s much cheaper to adapt to whatever the earth and sun deals out than to try vainly to fix it to like yesteryear.


74 posted on 11/26/2018 12:02:49 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: rarestia
Hot Tabasco in post 32 looked him up and says that he is ‘Head of the Indiana Farmers Union’ so I would say that he is an activist farmer and likes to talk to the press.

I you talk to the press you have to have something to say and it helps if it is something that the press wants to hear.

But every farmer I ever knew always had one eye on the weather and the other on the commodities report. My granddad listened to the Farm Report on the radio every morning and part of that report was the weather report.

From the earliest writing about farming, farmers feared the weather. Bad weather could wipe a farmer out. Watch the movie ‘The Grapes of Wrath’. It is a socialist screed but it correctly depicts how weather can destroy a farm and a break a farmer.

Modern times hasn’t really changed much. Look back to the 1970s-80s and all of the farm foreclosures.

Most small farmers have a full time job besides working their farm.

Most will have equity loans to buy their seed, fertilizer and pesticides in the spring and pay off the loans when they sell their crop in the fall.

If they don’t buy crop insurance and the crop fails, they are hurting. Some don’t buy insurance because they can’t afford it.

Farmers are on a thin margin, so yes, they fear the weather and always have.

But farmers are also political like everyone else so some of them are going to believe the AGW propaganda.

75 posted on 11/26/2018 12:02:57 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Pontiac

Is it possible to switch to rice paddies in a year that is expected to be rainy?


76 posted on 11/26/2018 12:05:14 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Sacajaweau

This fall was very wet and harvesting was difficult. An anomaly that only occurs about every 6 years for the last 5000 yrs.


77 posted on 11/26/2018 12:14:44 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is no science in this “science.”


78 posted on 11/26/2018 12:29:54 PM PST by Travis T. OJustice (<---Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

These people are insane. The freaking pioneers lost crops to bad weather for goodness sakes.


79 posted on 11/26/2018 12:33:13 PM PST by jersey117
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To: SgtHooper

Crop insurance claim on 20 acres is pocket change, probably less than $100 per acre.

This story gives nonsense a bad name.


80 posted on 11/26/2018 12:35:14 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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