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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I don’t live in midwest but same thing here. People who normally grow corn did wheat and it’s brown already. Only about a foot tall.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21399-wheat-will-age-prematurely-in-a-warmer-world/
He found that the wheat turned brown earlier when average temperatures were higher, with spells over 34 ºC having a particularly strong effect. He then inferred yield loss, using previous field studies as a guide.
This revealed a much stronger effect of temperatures on yield than previous studies. Lobell’s data predicted that yield losses in the Ganges plain will be around 50 per cent greater from an average warming of 2 ºC than existing models
2012
Not that big of a problem, the US mostly exports domestic grain supply :porky-happy:
And then imports grain for domestic use from… Russia and Ukraine :porky-scared-flipped:
I don’t even understand how that makes sense in capitalism. Moving shit around the world costs labor and therefor profits. How could it possibly be more profitable to do it that way instead of the obvious way that makes sense?
When the drought hit Australia in the 2000s, crop yields went to shit. So yeah, expect the same in the US.
Yeah. We’re actually getting tons of rain where I’m at, but it’ll alternate like a week of rain with big storms followed by a week of intense sun and heat, so it’ll be too wet by the end of one week, too dry the next, with extreme and rapid temp swings and strong winds. Climate machine broke
Damn I’m starting to imagine the sorts of takes we’ll see pushed to manufacture consent for invading Canada lol
I guess it depends on who’s in office. Republicans, it’ll be the playbook for countries that are starting to teeter towards socialism, all “some calling election results illegitimate” and funneling arms to reactionary paramilitary groups. Dems, try to smear them over “human rights” esp treatment of the First Nations people there, blatantly refusing to acknowledge the genocide of indigenous people they’ve been committing for centuries
