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Master Don Juan
Here's the drought map, updated weekly:
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/monitor.html
I'm at stage 2. Instead of May, it looks like late July outside, and with record heat it feels like it too. Lawns are brown and crunch underfoot. The only gardens that live are the ones that get irrigated, and the bugs are dying of thirst, so they eat everything that the drought doesn't kill. Even the bees are starving for nectar, so they are raiding each other's hives and this makes them aggressive near their hive; they attack and sting people, which is very rare for honey bees.
The commercial corn and bean crops are looking miserable already. If we have the drought I think we will, the price of food is going up. Corn is already at a very high price, largely due to using it for ethanol. Water shortages will be common wherever crops are irrigated. Wildfires will probably be common as well.
It would seem that there has to be a price that corn can reach that would make Congress drop the ethanol mandate, but who knows how high it will be. Natural Gas keeps getting cheaper due to fracking, and I wonder if we'll see more use of it, as the food we are turning into fuel keeps going up in price.
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/monitor.html
I'm at stage 2. Instead of May, it looks like late July outside, and with record heat it feels like it too. Lawns are brown and crunch underfoot. The only gardens that live are the ones that get irrigated, and the bugs are dying of thirst, so they eat everything that the drought doesn't kill. Even the bees are starving for nectar, so they are raiding each other's hives and this makes them aggressive near their hive; they attack and sting people, which is very rare for honey bees.
The commercial corn and bean crops are looking miserable already. If we have the drought I think we will, the price of food is going up. Corn is already at a very high price, largely due to using it for ethanol. Water shortages will be common wherever crops are irrigated. Wildfires will probably be common as well.
It would seem that there has to be a price that corn can reach that would make Congress drop the ethanol mandate, but who knows how high it will be. Natural Gas keeps getting cheaper due to fracking, and I wonder if we'll see more use of it, as the food we are turning into fuel keeps going up in price.