Corn Crisis Explodes into Corn Disaster…(Read!!)
Holly Deyo
StanDeyo.com
July 9, 2012
Adding to a mountain of other challenges, “corn disaster” is not what we need to hear. Life is tough enough. After weeks of drought and days of blistering 100+ temps, corn is succumbing to these tortures. Soybeans are next in line. No way can crops withstand such harsh onslaughts of dry, blast-furnace conditions. Fields like this one, right, are becoming prevalent, not the exception. This is America’s bread basket.
“According to AccuWeather.com Agricultural Meteorologists, you can’t raise a corn crop with less than an inch of rain over six weeks, combined with 100-degree and higher temperatures. However, these conditions have taken place in much of the southern corn belt through the week of July 4, 2012.” —Record Heat Wave Resulting in a Corn Belt Disaster, AccuWeather, July 8.
This “rain map” below shows that most places in corn growing areas – and throughout the U.S. – received much less than minimally acceptable moisture. AccuWeather states that even though these areas have seen severe droughts dating back to the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s, much of the Corn Belt never put in irrigation. That is simply mind-numbing! For those of us in the high desert, it is like breathing. If you don’t do water, nothing survives. So in the Grain Belt, it’s up to God, and He alone, whether or not we have corn – and other crops. There are no words for this kind of short-sightedness. Farmers may not be able to afford it now, but they should have done it when they were in tall cotton, so to speak.
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