All of us need to brace ourselves for much higher prices at the grocery store.
Throughout U.S. history, there have always been droughts in the western half of the country from time to time, but what we are dealing with now is truly alarming. Scientists tell us that a multi-year “megadrought” has developed in the southwestern portion of the country, and this is the worst year of that “megadrought” so far by a wide margin. If conditions do not radically improve soon, we are going to have a major agricultural disaster on our hands. Some farmers have already decided not to plant crops at all this year, but many others have decided to plant anyway knowing that if enough rain doesn’t come their crops will certainly fail.
In fact, the first few months of this year were the driest that North Dakota has seen in 126 years…
To call this a “plague” would be a major understatement. On the border of Oregon and California…
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