Eastern U.S. Crop Failure - Deluge and Drought - Earth Changes and the Pole Shift: "
"We warned at the start of ZetaTalk, in 1995, that unpredictable weather extremes, switching about from drought to deluge, would occur and increase on a lineal basis up until the pole shift."
--ZetaTalk
"Northeast Farmers Coping with Wet Harvest Season"
Wet weather and flooding are causing more than headaches in the Northeast this fall; they are inhibiting the harvest and resulting in lower yields. Farmer Bill Baker in Covington, Pa. says this is the wettest he has seen it since 1972.
Baker has come to realize a saying his father, in the farming business since 1955, made was true.
"A dry year will scare you to death, but a wet year will starve you to death."
Dry Weather in the South:
"We warned at the start of ZetaTalk, in 1995, that unpredictable weather extremes, switching about from drought to deluge, would occur and increase on a lineal basis up until the pole shift."
--ZetaTalk
"Northeast Farmers Coping with Wet Harvest Season"
Wet weather and flooding are causing more than headaches in the Northeast this fall; they are inhibiting the harvest and resulting in lower yields. Farmer Bill Baker in Covington, Pa. says this is the wettest he has seen it since 1972.
Baker has come to realize a saying his father, in the farming business since 1955, made was true.
"A dry year will scare you to death, but a wet year will starve you to death."
Dry Weather in the South:
Tiffany Arthur, an agricultural economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency, said that in Texas, the air was so dry that irrigation water would evaporate before the water could reach the plants. The Texas peanut yield is down 17 percent.
Though not as bad as Texas, dry weather affected farmers in the state with the nation's biggest peanut crop, Georgia.
"I've never seen a year wherein we suffered from planting time, all the way through the growing season," said Hawkinsville, Ga., farmer Rodney Dawson. "I've never experienced a season like this in 41 years."
The dirt "is just hard, really hard. [It's] just like powder, no moisture at all," Dawson said.
Worse, the bad news isn't over for the peanut farmers or peanut lovers, Mohler said.
If summer rains don't materialize [in 2012], that's two bad years in a row."
Another part of the problem is that cotton prices were high around planting time, so farmers planted cotton instead of peanuts. Planted acres for peanuts went down 11 percent this year.
The last time farmers planted so few acres of peanuts was 2009. Before that, it's been nearly a hundred years since so few acres of peanuts were planted, 1915.
Though not as bad as Texas, dry weather affected farmers in the state with the nation's biggest peanut crop, Georgia.
"I've never seen a year wherein we suffered from planting time, all the way through the growing season," said Hawkinsville, Ga., farmer Rodney Dawson. "I've never experienced a season like this in 41 years."
The dirt "is just hard, really hard. [It's] just like powder, no moisture at all," Dawson said.
Worse, the bad news isn't over for the peanut farmers or peanut lovers, Mohler said.
If summer rains don't materialize [in 2012], that's two bad years in a row."
Another part of the problem is that cotton prices were high around planting time, so farmers planted cotton instead of peanuts. Planted acres for peanuts went down 11 percent this year.
The last time farmers planted so few acres of peanuts was 2009. Before that, it's been nearly a hundred years since so few acres of peanuts were planted, 1915.
When a field of maturing corn or other crops is flooded, it is considered to be contaminated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As a result, the crops cannot enter the food supply of humans or animals.
Federal assistance is available for those farmers whose crops were under water from Irene and Lee.
In Pennsylvania, marcellus shale gas drilling companies were buying up moldy bales of hay and using them as mulch around their operations. That is allowing some farmers to make money on a crop that would normally not be usable.
Federal assistance is available for those farmers whose crops were under water from Irene and Lee.
In Pennsylvania, marcellus shale gas drilling companies were buying up moldy bales of hay and using them as mulch around their operations. That is allowing some farmers to make money on a crop that would normally not be usable.
Peanut Crop Severely Impacted by Drought
The United States has a peanut shortage this fall and soon peanut butter
prices will jump around 30 percent.
Drought was the main obstacle for peanut growers this year.
Arachis hypogaea
Peanuts are known by many other local names such as earthnuts, ground nuts, goober peas, monkey nuts, pygmy nuts and pig nuts.
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