Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Southern Drought

 Most of the southern United States is in some level of drought again.  Yeesh.  This does bad things to farming in those areas, along with hindering people's efforts to grow their own food in gardens.  No rain and broiling temperatures just kill the plants.
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judifilksign

judifilksign

June 17 2011, 01:30:23 UTC 10 years ago

And in Ohio, May had the most rainfall and coolest temperatures on record, beating measurements collected in the 1890s.

Much of the corn crop never got planted because of the rain, flooding and residual mud. Corn in the south withered with drought. What corn there is will be expensive, and my farmer friends say that the fuel contracts are fulfilled *first*, making food prices soar.
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

June 17 2011, 05:42:01 UTC 10 years ago

There are fields here that were planted 2 or 3 times and still have dead spots from flooding. Used to be, the spring rains came mostly prior to planting time. Now the spring rains are all but gone, and we have some summer floods, which overlap the growing season. Not a good thing. It's worse in our immediate area because we live on reclaimed swampland, which periodically makes a bid for re-establishing itself.