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How Drought on Mississippi River Impacts You
2013-01-31 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Woe is the Mississippi. A barge carrying light crude hit a bridge near Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Sunday, causing an oil spill. But if you think that is the worst thing that's happened this winter to the river, you'd be wrong. The middle Mississippi-the 200-mile (322-kilometer) stretch from St. Louis to Cairo, Illinois-is experiencing drought conditions unrivaled in the last 50 years. That's been the case since November. From December to March, this part of the river is always at its lowest...
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U.S. spring crop season jeopardized as drought persists
2013-01-31 19:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The unrelenting drought gripping key farming states in the U.S. Plains shows no signs of abating, and it will take a deluge of snow or rain to restore critical moisture to farmland before spring planting of new crops, a climate expert said on Thursday. "It's not a pretty picture," said climatologist Mark Svoboda of the University of Nebraska's Drought Mitigation Center. Precipitation in the Plains region has been 3-6 inches shy of normal levels since October, and some areas are nearly 16 inches...
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2012 Drought Affecting 2013 Food Prices
2013-01-30 22:58:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
A USDA economist says the persistent drought in the Midwest will lead to higher-than-normal food price inflation for the rest of the year. Ricky Volpe, USDA Economic Research Service, says, "It had substantial and devastating impacts on the major field crops of the American Midwest. The most important field crop there is field corn. Now, people dont eat field corn directly, but its processed into animal feed and thats a major input to the U.S. food supply chain so were seeing input costs rise for all the meat products and then all of these animal based products that consumers buy regularly. Were looking at inflation on the order of about three to four percent for beef and veal, pork, poultry, eggs and even a little bit higher for dairy. LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed("limelight_player_452471"); read more
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5 Lessons Learned from the 2012 Drought
2013-01-29 21:50:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
The 2012 crop year and the major drought that affected much of the United States is now behind us; however, many areas of the western Corn Belt, including much of southern and western Minnesota continue to face drought concerns for the coming 2013 crop year. Anytime we have a major disaster, such as the 2012 drought, it is always good to review what happened or didnt happen, and to use those findings to strategize for the future. Following are some key observations relative to the 2012 drought that can help farm operators and the agriculture industry plan for the coming years. Focus on Ag read more
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January Rain Nearly Wipes Out Remaining Drought in Indiana
2013-01-29 18:17:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: University of Illinois A week of rain and unseasonable warmth in January replenished the ground with enough water to eliminate dry conditions across Indiana except for the far northern part of the state. The report by the State Climate Office, based at Purdue University, is good news for crop farmers, who rely on rain and snow over the winter to "recharge" soils with water needed for spring plantings. read more
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