Anecdotal and I’d love to be wrong about this, buuuut I’m in the rural midwest rn and all of the wheat fields in like a 75 mile radius from me look like they’re absolutely fucked.
It’s basically all turned gold already which is super early for it, especially because it’s still short as fuck, like maybe a foot tall — it’s usually still green until it’s like 4 feet tall. The people who’ve lived here for a long time have been talking about how abnormal it is. I’m not a wheat scientist and haven’t really gotten into with anyone who knows what they’re actually talking about so I don’t totally know what it means, but I know it doesn’t mean anything good
Prob a good idea to stock up on food if you’ve got the means
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That paper is fascinating. 1,000,000 cows died in 2010 from “respiratory problems”. Looking at the table on page 10 “Percent of Total Calf Non-Predator Losses by Type – States and United States: 2010” and just looking at the column for respiratory problems is wild. In Nebraska and Colorado 40% of basically all cow deaths are due to respiratory problems. In Kansas it’s 63%. There’s clearly a trend there, though I’m too lazy and disinterested to figure out what that trend is, and to then analyze why that trend exists. Still interesting, though.
Barely related, but your comment reminded me of this. I used to drive past a rendering plant a few times a year. Without question the worst thing I’ve ever smelled. I guess the smell was raw animal fat being melted down to tallow on an industrial scale. I remember it would fill the car. Cloying. Like the air had become too thin to breathe properly, but at the same time thick and heavy with this awful stench. Like a concentrated death-smell.
I’ve also driven past feedlots, which smell awful, but for me they lack the nightmare quality of the rendering plant smell.
