Readers know by now that the Western US is facing one of the most severe droughts in years. We’ve documented (read here & here) this spring of a “megadrought” sweeping across states like California and Nevada as risks of a second Dust Bowl increase by the day.
But in this note, let’s dive deeper into the drought and how it’s impacting farmers and the potential consequences it could have on crops. Meteorologists at BAMWX have published data on surface soil moisture over 20 years. Surface soil moisture is the water that is in the upper 4 inches and available for various types of plants. They found that the 2021 moisture deficit for early June is the worst it has ever been in two decades.
BAMWX’s Vince Bryan says the moisture deficit in the soil is “a concern” as it may impact plant development. Soil moisture plays a crucial role in agricultural monitoring, drought and flood forecasting, forest fire prediction, and water supply management.
Soil moisture observations can alert of impending drought, such as what’s been underway in the Western US this year.
What this means is that soil moisture deficits can dry crops and make them more vulnerable to pests. Even short-term drought can cause damage to crops, mainly during critical stages of crop development, such as after planting or during flowering.
If the drought persists, crop yields could come underestimates this year and result in elevated agricultural prices.
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The Feds will probably tax water rights to the Aquifers, huh? Or cut them off even!
Saying it so the idea is ignored.
Exactly, Mags
This isn’t about rainfall or groundwater, it’s about soil health. Big Ag mines soil without replenishment. They use it as an anchor for roots, not as a source of fertility. Soil absent tilth cannot prevent runoff, erosion, and rapid evaporation. Until this reality is recognized it will only get worse, but since reality is not a part of The Narrative… well, you know.
The relationship between obesity, illness and poor physicality (you say physiognomy I say Tater Tots) found in citizens/residents of the USA reliant on industrialized farming and just-in-time food delivery should be obvious.
The relationship between Roundup-ready seed and Roundup (and other toxins designed to replace natural processes and eliminate human labor) to the decline of trace minerals in soils should also be obvious.
Cannot pinpoint source but read that most chemicals used in herbicides are antibiotics. No wonder we are a sick society.
“Readers know by now that the Western US is facing one of the most severe droughts in years.” No we don’t. Another fucking grift. I remember Jamie Dimon at the Aspen Institute 15 years ago saying that it’s about time farmers paid a fair price for water. It’s a banksters wet dream second only to private energy taxes. They already get to counterfeit. How many people are so stupid that they look at a tiny little map of the United States with some colored blobs on it and think that they are getting good information?
I want to comment on T4C’s situation, for some reason I can’t post on that thread. You can’t win that one. Go get your shot. The potential downside in getting the shot is dwarfed by the real-time downside of being isolated from your daughter and grandchildren. Not everything is politics. Does it suck that your son-in-law power played you here? Yeah it does. But so what. Write it off to, at least he’s trying to be protective of his family, which is a good thing. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Who knows, maybe the vaccine will save your life. Probably not, but you never know. But don’t let the politics of the moment interfere with the closeness of your family. Not worth it at all. If you stay away from your daughter and grandchild, the oligarchs win.
She is standing on a principle.
No principle is worth destroying your family. Family is the only principle that really matters. Everything else is all in your head. If you don’t preserve family, you have no principles.
What is family if you have sold all you’re principles. Would you help your son with his makeup for the young tranny of the year contest?
Your logic has some big holes in it. If the Commonwealth of Virginia told her to get the shot or else, and she told them to fuck off, that would be a principled position. And an admirable one. But this is a family squabble. Parents put conditions on grandparents all the time. It’s just part of the deal, like it or not. Her life will be better with her family intact. That trumps all other concerns. By a lot. You can’t go to the mat on everything. Time and energy are finite. The son in law is either passive aggressive, or legitimately thinks he is protecting his family. Doesn’t matter which one is true, honestly. He holds all the cards. So she is in a no win. So fold, and move on. Sometimes you lose. That’s life. Family is all that matters. Not “principles”.
“Parents put conditions on grandparents all the time. It’s just part of the deal”
MOM! KILL YOURSELF IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE BRAT ALIVE AGAIN!!!
Star do you read what you type before you hit the post button?
And furthermore, you claim he’s doing his duty to protect his family from a known hoax virus with a known hoax of a killer vax for a hoax that doesn’t even affect kids. He’s up to his ears in the M.I.C. so he’s exposing them to Voodoo medicine which can be proven but saving them from a hoax. Some guy huh? What a hero.
Why doesn’t T4Cs daughter hold any cards? His behavior is controlling.
Correct on all counts, Leah. But so what? You’re making my point for me. This is control madness. By all parties. It has nothing to do with the shot
It depends. If you were my son, I would help you. And you would win
I think you lost this one, star..move on.
I’ve said several times on this thread, you win some, you lose some. Not being of the hive mind is almost never a loss. No chance that I am wrong that family is more important than some “principle”. This isn’t about the vaccine, this is an ordinary garden-variety power struggle between son-in-law and mother-in-law. But it’s a free country. Everyone can do whatever they want.
“I’ve said several times on this thread, you win some, you lose some. Not being of the hive mind is almost never a loss.”
Yes, you’re definitely not part of the hive mind on this one.
Not necessarily true.
— What about the War of Northern Aggression … brother against brother … did they (both sides) not have principles?
— The Revolt Against England was quite similar … a brother Loyalist against a brother Patriot …. did they not have principles?
— What about Jesus’ words? —– ” If any man come to Me and hate not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple”
It sounds to me like her SIL is destroying the family due to principle. He has been “vaccinated”, so should be immune to the WuHuFlu and it should not matter if Miss T has been jabbed or not. If the “vaccines” don’t work, then he is a gigantic putz.
many of the vaxxed are brainwashed & arrogant–
they will readily admit that the vax is “only”85% effective,which is why YOU should have the jab if you want to go out in public or be around them–
I really do not like a lot of people so staying away from them is a win-win for me. Our family is about half and half split on the jab, but nobody has tried to force their choice on us. That is the way it should be.
TN, I totally agree with you
SIL is trying to force that choice on T4C.
True. But he holds the grandchild card. And that’s the winner. Being able to lose gracefully at times in life is an under-appreciated skill.
He does. Even if lose gracefully = die? This jab is still experimental. SIL admits he doesn’t know the long term impacts. I give him credit for that.
Star….What the heck is wrong with you? She sells out her principles and becomes a Hybrid Cyborg to see her grand daughter, then dies a year or two later from selling out and becoming a cyborg.
That’ll work!!!
If you are dead the oligarchs win and your family loses.
Star, you think giving in will let you gain something. It won’t You will lose.
She is not giving in to Big Pharma. She would be doing it to apease her son-in-law. Still sucks. But you don’t win them all. He has all the power here. He thinks he is protecting his family. That’s a great thing in a young man. Hundreds of millions of people have gotten the shot. At the end of the day it’s probably not a big deal. I have no plans to get the shot. But if it interferes with my ability to travel internationally, I may have to get it at some point. You can’t make everything the hill you die on. Life has to go on. T4C’s life will be much better bouncing those grandbabies on her lap for the rest of her life. She’ll forget about the shot in 24 hours. Life’s not all politics. Step back from the edge
Star do you even know what’s in those vaccines? And it’s not big Pharma she would be caving to.
If what you’re typing is what you believe then Thank God I’m not you.
No, I don’t know what’s in them. I haven’t researched them, because I have no plans to get one. But they don’t scare me. Lots of family and friends have gotten them, It’s not a big deal. The vaccine itself isn’t the problem, it’s the digital tracking and compliance they are after.
HOLY SHIT!!!
I dunno …. it’s almost as if you haven’t read EVEN ONE Covid / Shit Shot article here in the past 15 months.
For Christ’s sake, Stuckey, it’s a flu shot. Son-in-law flexing on his mother-in-law, that’s a new one, right? Maybe he’s not as nice of a guy as T4C thinks. He certainly being a douchebag here. But at the end of the day you have to make choices about what’s important to you. This is bullshit, no question, but it just ain’t that big of a deal.
“I dunno …. it’s almost as if you haven’t read EVEN ONE Covid / Shit Shot article here in the past 15 months.” EXACTLY. I’ve been living in the Free State of Florida. I no longer watch TV. This became sort of a non-issue last summer. we’ve just been living our lives in a fairly normal way. Some of my friends got vaccinated, some didn’t. Doesn’t seem like anyone’s political identity is hung up on this one. Obviously, some of you have lived a different experience in the past year. I got extraordinarily lucky in my circumstance. I’m not surprised that I am more indifferent to this stuff then someone who’s been hiding in their house all year. Get back to living your lives. This hoax is almost over
Star you are admitting that you don’t know what the subject is and what her objections to the vax are. It’s a body and life changing group of ingredients.
I’ll let you have the last word.
Star has a point. Not popular here, but I get it. I would never let anything come between my family…especially TPTB. OTOH…I will never allow anyone to force me to get the shot either. I was pretty adamant that I didn’t want my kids around the “vaxxed” until I found out that half my family got the jab. So…I backed off and just hope we all stay healthy.
But…I don’t know…being required to inject yourself with an experiment? I would probably draw that line there. She’s not rejecting them; they’re rejecting her. Kinda different.
Star…I moved from a blue state to a small rural red town/state and life is very different here. It’s almost as if no one knew Covid existed. Everyone is just living life as normal. It’s like I moved back to America after living in a communist country. People in blue areas ARE living a different reality for sure.
Nice post, Abigail. This has been a psych-op from the beginning. There was a guy who used to post on Conservative Treehouse under the name Fl Guy who nailed it last spring. This virus was neither as contagious or as deadly as the PTB needed it to be. Trump made a lot of huge mistakes. but he got the big thing right. The vaccines were the key to destroying the whole conspiracy. If I were fat, had any kind of chronic condition, or were feeling elderly, I would have gotten vaccinated already. They were a lifesaver for lots of people.
You’re the last one on the planet who still thinks Trumps actions were mistakes. He was in on the flu hoax from the beginning.
What a fucktard!
The 2021 Western farming year (20% of USA food?) and ranching (millions of beef cattle) will be a bust for Western Agriculture. Fifty million people are hoping for rains come November to refill the dams; but when the rains fail, they will at least have all that free Green Energy they have spent billions on to replace the cheap coal fired plants they destroyed (to save the Environment from the Global Warming Hoax). This Grand Solar Minimum Climate Change Western Drought was foreseeable, just as the serious cooling above the 45th Latitude that is expected. Welfare Maggots need to be making a garden and everybody needs to pray the Mini-Ice Age coming is just 30 years and not 100 or more. Sure sounds like Four Horsemen are bearing down hard on the G-7 Useful Idiots to me (get more Shots, print more Fiat, accept more illegals, more lockdowns, Shot Passports, more censorship, Mark of the Beast, only Central Bank Digital money, One World Government and Leader, Retraining Camps, etc). “When will they ever learn…” How will they learn if all the Conservatives are censored?
Right now the hydroelectric generation from the Hoover Dam is down significantly because of the multi decade low water levels. Greenies are well and truly screwed if the water doesn’t flow, the wind doesn’t blow and the Sun is blocked.
In my part of the world it is pretty dry and more wind than usual. Upper 8o’s to upper 90’s past ten days.
I’m thinking there ain’t enough solar panels and windmills on a good day to replace Hoover Dam’s generators and even if there was, how could they drink electricity? Even if the Eddy Minimum is just 30 years, compare that to a just a decade of the Dirty Thirties! If I lived in the West, I’d move before it became like the Gobi Desert, or even Somalia. “The Ancient Ones” had to leave the West; “Have suitcase, will travel” would be my motto now.
The west IS a desert. Always was a desert. The problem isn’t lack of rain, there’s always been lack of rain. The problem is that reservoirs & aquifers can only support so much population & agriculture no matter what engineering marvels are used, because of that lack of rain.
Cue Sam Kinison:
@1:20
“This river is an important source of water to seven western states – Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California, as well as a portion of Mexico. Along the way it is used for irrigation, domestic water, recreation, and hydroelectric power production.”
30 million additional human beings using these resources in the last ten years- that we know of– and not one single mention of that data point in any of these articles.
scroll down a few lines to “the termination event”–
keep your fingers crossed–
https://spaceweather.com/
Pray for a swift Terminator and if it doesn’t appear, head for the mountains.
Using canals to flood fields in the desert always had a dumb idea thing about it. Build urself a greenhouse and use drip irrigation or some other water-saving method.
Worked great for the Sumerians until the fields salted up and the rains became so puny they couldn’t flush them anymore.
china is buying so much corn it’s ports are clogging–
they say it is 4 pork but i no trustee chicoms–
Good, it’s GMO poison anyway. Let them eat corn and lots of it with a side of Monsanto glycogoop to boot.
that gmo corn could feed lots of people here,better that than organic nothing–
Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow there will be no humans born.
What else are they going to do with all the USD they get every month? They need something to put in those empty containers they are returning to be filled with more junk destined for the US
there is a big shortage of shipping containers in china b/c they reopened their economy so quickly & we kept ours closed so long while people ordered stuff online from amazon —
i haven’t looked lately but china was having a near record year at one point last year–
I remember reading stories about all of the container ships sitting off the CA coast waiting to be unloaded by the short staffed longshoremen.
Tred- We grow so much corn we don’t need for food because TPTB KNOWS that for every bushel of corn that is turned into ethanol, it raises the price beyond third world’s pricing and a certain amount of humans die. Another useful tool in the population control toolbox. Trade imbalance is off the charts with China.
It goes a lot further than that.
When I was a kid, growing up in the “heartland” as the local Southeast Misery newsfolks like to refer to Southeast Misery, my father actually declared that he was “on strike” from farming when the federal subsidy program began.
I think my father was brilliant but I also know he was a narcissist of the highest order. Since he’d also been a POW of Japan in WWII? He was pretty much large and in charge.
The federal government is involved in every aspect of farming in that region now.
ghost,
what’s going on w/the i-40 bridge,did they re open it?if not re opened,where do people cross the river?
I live near Memphrica and can answer. Phase 1 of the repair has been completed and the steel reinforcements have been ordered for phase 2. I think they are hoping for opening by July 4.
All traffic is being diverted to the I-55 bridge, a very narrow 2 lanes in each direction . I have not been down there, but I can imagine the traffic is a nightmare. Lots of trucks pass through Memphrica each day.
thanks
Ghost, your father sounds like he was a badass. Men, real men, like to be badasses.
That’s changed and TPTB are relaxing the alcohol and biodiesel requirements for the USA.
That’s the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard. They keep the price low on purpose, we grow too much, and then we dump our food on shithole countries and explode their populations. Ethanol is a scam but the point is NOT to kill niggers. They starve regularly no matter what, it’s their nature.
Look at global populations. The only people dying off that matter are White people.
Watch this very short video and then tell me deserts can’t be transformed.
good video,cali needs to be doing that–
re your point above about corn/ethanol,you’re correct but it is wrecking our environment 4 nothing–
What is this magic stuff?
https://www.csmonitor.com/1987/0519/dsand.html
Did you ever read the Dune series? The last one, where the Lord Emperor of Dune exploded into a bajillion little sandworms, suggested the transformation of the desert planet into paradise by sandworm.
Look, Bea Attitude… I don’t know what it looks like in Kentucky, but here in the Misery Ozarks it is raining and raining and raining.
I have plants growing amuck I tell you! I have been giving lettuce and kale away so much people are avoiding me.
Mags- TPTB have been keeping precip off Cali and the SW for quite some time, they drop it on us instead. They are ruining food supply chains coming and going. Boston and NE corridor seems to get most of it in winter, thus record snowfalls in inches. It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature Ghost.
Maggie just thank God you are where you are, there is no misery when you are in the OZ Ark refuge.
Crops are drowning from the rain for the last year and a half here in the Red River Valley/ ArkLaTex.
…wonder what the “artificial substance” does to the food…I try not to eat anything edible from China..
Have the usual suspects started pushing privatizing the water supply yet? Water futures? Ad nauseum?
Looking forward to that $2000/month water bill.
anon- Can’t remember the title but saw a movie funded by The Rockefeller Foundation years ago that showed geographical water supplies, lakes/reservoirs etc. guarded by personnel with automatic weapons and armed drones.
Many areas in large Indian cities only get water for two hours per day, then it is shut off.
The biggest water hogs in India are the soda companies.
Same when I was in Turkey but it was because they have limited utilities equipment to serve their whole population. People have big buckets to fill them up when the water is scheduled to come on.
Either Ross Perot or Boone Pickens wanted to build a pipeline from MN to W TX to ship water.
Club puppets, probably Nestle behind that. They went to Detoilet, MI instead, along with the Chinese.
The Usual Suspects