Research forecasts Iowa corn yields could drop in half within the next half-century thanks to extreme weather – yet it’s not part of the political conversation.
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| US and Iowa state flags are seen next to a corn field in Grand Mound, Iowa. |
Farmers around here are itching to go after that amber wave of soya beans, but there was that 5in rain a couple of weeks ago and then a 7in rain, and it drives even the retired guys batty.
Those beans aren’t worth much at the elevator thanks to a Trump trade war with China, but they’re worth even less getting wet feet in a pond that was a field which the glacier made a prairie bog some 14,000 years ago – until we came along and drained it.
Read the story from The Guardian by Art Cullen - “Politicians say nothing, but US farmers are increasingly terrified by it – climate change.”
