Extreme weather is pummeling the Midwest, and farmers are in deep trouble
In Kendell Culp’s corner of northwest Indiana, relentless rain began falling on his farm months ago, saturating the ground his family has nurtured for generations and delaying the start of their planting season by more than a week.
It eased up briefly at the end of April, enough time to plant corn on about 350 of his 2,000 acres. Then the rain started falling all over again.
“There’s just not a lot you can do,” he said.
Nearly 90 percent of his corn crop is already growing, as a result of a few dry days and long, strategic hours in the fields. But he has yet to plant a single soybean. Last year, he was done planting everything by the first week of May.
“I’ve never had a yield where I couldn’t get my crop planted,” Culp said, noting that his father, who is in his 80s, recalled the same. “This is unprecedented, what we’re facing.”
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Don't worry. Trumpy will bail you out with more money borrowed from China.
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Did you see the posting about the farmer who donated his "check for his loses" - $25.00! He donated it to Cory Booker - no faith left for IQ45.
And at the same time, the BIG $$$$ mega-farm - corporations are taking in millions.
Yeah, we paid for all of that, even though the "stable genius" told us that China would.
I guess the "check's in the mail," just behind Mexico's payment for the wall, huh?
