February 20, 2013
/EIN Presswire/ -- Payments are at $14.2 billion (click here) and still climbing from 2012's historic drought in U.S. agricultural areas. EIN News, a leading media monitoring company, provides in-depth news about insurance and agriculture issues via the following news sections:...
There is actually an economic pyramid that is disrupted and destroyed when Climate Crisis events occur with our agricultural lands.
It goes like this:
* Record High Crop Losses due to high temperatures, drought, flooding and high winds.
* Processors must cut back or import products raising prices on products.
* Labor is not needed. In some instances that means migrant labor. Migrant labor does not mean illegal immigrants.
* Equipment doesn't sell.
* Bankers don't loan.
* Local economies suffer.
* No new investments.
* Shelf space for products disappears with substitutions. Maybe with substitutions.
* Research slows causing job losses.
* Transportation is not needed. Trucking and rail services suffer losses.
* Ultimately yields of crops can be damaged for five to seven years or longer depending on the depth of the drought and/or the soil removed and damaged.
At the basis of any decision by the Obama Administration to stop the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is a solid understanding of what occurs when crop losses are realized.
It is more than a pipeline issue. It is a climate issue and that means seriousness and not political rhetoric.
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on February 25, 2013 at 5:30 AM, updated February 25, 2013 at 6:50 AM
/EIN Presswire/ -- Payments are at $14.2 billion (click here) and still climbing from 2012's historic drought in U.S. agricultural areas. EIN News, a leading media monitoring company, provides in-depth news about insurance and agriculture issues via the following news sections:...
There is actually an economic pyramid that is disrupted and destroyed when Climate Crisis events occur with our agricultural lands.
It goes like this:
* Record High Crop Losses due to high temperatures, drought, flooding and high winds.
* Processors must cut back or import products raising prices on products.
* Labor is not needed. In some instances that means migrant labor. Migrant labor does not mean illegal immigrants.
* Equipment doesn't sell.
* Bankers don't loan.
* Local economies suffer.
* No new investments.
* Shelf space for products disappears with substitutions. Maybe with substitutions.
* Research slows causing job losses.
* Transportation is not needed. Trucking and rail services suffer losses.
* Ultimately yields of crops can be damaged for five to seven years or longer depending on the depth of the drought and/or the soil removed and damaged.
At the basis of any decision by the Obama Administration to stop the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is a solid understanding of what occurs when crop losses are realized.
It is more than a pipeline issue. It is a climate issue and that means seriousness and not political rhetoric.
By
on February 25, 2013 at 5:30 AM, updated February 25, 2013 at 6:50 AM
Years of drought are reshaping the U.S. beef industry (click here) with feedlots and a major meatpacking plant closing because there are too few cattle left in the United States to support them.
Some feedlots in the nation’s major cattle-producing states have already been dismantled, and others are sitting empty. Operators say they don’t expect a recovery anytime soon, with high feed prices, much of the country still in drought and a long time needed to rebuild herds.
The closures are the latest ripple in the shockwave the drought sent through rural communities. Most cattle in the U.S. are sent to feedlots for final fattening before slaughter. The dwindling number of animals also is hurting meatpackers, with their much larger workforces. For consumers, the impact will be felt in grocery and restaurant bills as a smaller meat supply means higher prices....
