Conditions Are “Drier Than The Dust Bowl Years” In The Heartland Of America
By Michael Snyder The seemingly endless drought in the heartland of America is not going to be good for food production. For years, I have…
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Kansas Wheat Harvest Will Be The Smallest Since 1957 And U.S. Corn Is Being Absolutely Devastated By Drought
By Michael Snyder Significantly higher food prices are coming, because U.S. food production is going to be way below normal levels this year. That is…
Olive Oil Prices Soar As Top Producer Plagued With Drought
By Tyler Durden Spain’s severe drought and parched soils have sent olive oil prices to levels not seen in more than a decade. The surge…
Somalia’s Citizens Still in Dire Need of Aid as Famine Follows Deadly Drought
By Emily Thomspson Somalia is currently facing a massive famine after the worst drought in decades which reportedly may have killed as many as 43,000…
Somalia Drought is Killing Thousands but the World Remains Indifferent
By Emily Thompson A new report this month by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) says an estimated 43,000 excess deaths occurred…
Kenya’s Drought Could Become a Humanitarian Catastrophe
By Emily Thompson Kenya is currently experiencing a major drought; and with a massive humanitarian catastrophe looming, as well as hundreds of elephants, wildebeests and…
The Food Crisis Of 2023 Is Going To Be Far Worse Than Most People Would Dare To Imagine
By Michael Snyder I am trying to sound the alarm about this as loudly as I can. The global food crisis just continues to intensify,…
Latest Supply Chain Crisis Could Threaten Global Stash Of Food, Energy
By Rachel Premack You probably do not spend much time thinking about barges. This is something that you ought to change. The barge industry is…
Will Catastrophic Crop Losses In 2022 Lead To Unprecedented Shortages In 2023?
By Michael Snyder Crops are failing all over the globe this summer, but most people don’t even know that this is happening because the big…
“Worst I’ve Ever Seen”: Cotton Prices Soar After Historic USDA Cut Amid Megadrought
By Tyler Durden US cotton prices continued to surge above the boom days of 2010-11 after a massive crop estimate cut by the USDA, shocking Wall…
Europe’s Rhine River At Dangerously Low Levels, Centimeters From Shipping Disruption
By Tyler Durden The Rhine River’s low water levels threaten Germany’s largest industrial players that rely on the 800-mile (1,288-kilometer) waterway from Switzerland to the…
Disaster In The Heartland: Wheat Crops In Kansas Are Failing On A Massive Scale
By Michael Snyder Did you know that Kansas is known as “the Wheat State”? In 2021, it produced nearly one-fourth of all wheat that was…
Heat-Scorched Odessa, Texas Has Been Without Water All Week Due To “Aging Infrastructure”
By Tyler Durden Amid scorching temperatures which have hovered above 100 degrees all week, one Texas city has had its water supply shut off for…
On Top Of Everything Else, Drought, Drought And More Drought Is On The Way For The Western U.S.
By Michael Snyder Are you ready for more bad news about our food supply? In recent weeks, I have extensively covered a confluence of factors…