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Originally Posted by JThiessen
In the plains states, there has been a vastly large amount of rainfall, keeping the farmers out of the fields. This will affect the production of spring wheat, corn, oats, barley, beans, peas, etc., virtually everything except winter wheat - which gets planted in the fall. Now if the rain continues for much longer, then you will have "bad" crops - once the crops that did get planted reach about 4-6 weeks of growth, you actually need heat for it to mature the grain head properly.
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Are you not able to import food stuffs as required?
Australia is the driest continent on earth, our farmers do it harder than probably any first world farmers, most of Australia is in drought, we suffer cyclones etc...we don't have any profound need to stockpile food. What can't the US do like every other country does & import what it needs if domestic supplies can't provide?