The vast majority of our corn
and soybeans were exposed
to this storm.
Millions of acres of wheat
and soybeans that were
about to be harvested
are now completely gone.
Corn, soy and potatoes
are found in many
packaged foods.
Their prices are going up.
Stock up now !
A blizzard recently
devastated farms
across the
U.S. heartland.
A blizzard,
you may recall,
is COLD weather
-- I suppose leftists
will be telling us
climate change
is the cause ...
or they'll completely
ignore the blizzard.
Due to rain and
severe flooding
that I wrote about
several times
on this blog,
many farmers
in the middle
of the country
had long delays
getting crops planted.
Because of those
planting delays,
the farmers needed
exceptionally good
weather at the end
of the growing season,
so crops could mature,
and be harvested,
before being damaged
by cold weather.
That did not happen.
Last week,
an historic blizzard
dumped up to
two feet of snow
from Colorado
to Minnesota.
One city
in North Dakota
got 30 inches
of snow.
October 6, 2019
USDA crop data:
( USDA = U.S. Department of Agriculture )
Only 58% of U.S. corn
was mature, and just
15% was harvested.
The worst state was
North Dakota, whose
corn was 22% mature,
with 0% harvested.
South Dakota’s
corn was 36% mature,
with 2% harvested.
U.S. soybeans were
only 14% harvested,
20 percentage points
below average.
North Dakota
and Minnesota beans
were just 8% gathered.
Only 45%
of North Dakota’s
potato crop
had been harvested,
versus 73% in 2018
-- the long term average
for October 6 was 69% !
According to
North Dakota
state lawmaker
Jon Nelson,
we should expect
“massive crop losses
– as devastating
as we’ve ever seen”
( Nelson farms
several hundred
acres near Rugby
in north-central
North Dakota. )
Unharvested
wheat in the region
probably will be
a total loss,
he told the
Associated Press.
Snowdrifts in the
Jamestown area
rose as high
as five feet,
said Ryan Wanzek,
who farms land
south and west
of the city.
Corn and
soybean crops
sit in his fields,
unharvested after
near-historic rainfall
late this summer.
With more than half
of North Dakota’s potatoes
still in the field,
the outlook for harvesting
a high quality crop is poor.
“It’s pretty bleak,”
said Ted Kreis,
Northern Potato Growers
Association marketing
and communications
director.