Drought’s deadly fingers have moved east, from the dried-up wells of California’s Central Valley and into the American Midwest, where much of America’s food is grown, and even farther, into the Southeast.
ootprints, human and animal, dot stretches of the Mississippi River that have been underwater for as long as people remember, and eight barges have run aground this year. Rain has been scarce, with little prospect for more.
“This long-running drought has had a profound effect on Western water supplies and American agriculture,” USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey told. He cited chronically dry rangelands and pastures as well as reduced yields in 2022 winter wheat, cotton and sorghum harvests. A Carrollton gauge shows abnormally low water levels along the Mississippi River on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 in New Orleans.The South Platte and Arkansas rivers, two main recharge sources for the sprawling underground water source, are trickling out before they make it to the Kansas and Nebraska state borders, Callicrate said. Yet a new 150,000-head feedlot is planned for southwest Nebraska to expand meat production.
The bad news goes on and on. More than 70% of the northern Great Plains, an American breadbasket, is in drought. The U.S. corn harvest has been below projections. Seven of the top corn-producing states are in what’s deemed “exceptional drought” — meaning the already hard job of farming is even harder. As crops fail, prices rise. That’s how drought has been contributing to food price inflation, and why the extreme drought will likely drive price hikes into next year.
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