Thread by @JimBair62221006

⚠️'There are two wheat crops in the United States: spring wheat planted now, & winter wheat planted in autumn that will be harvested soon.

Both are in trouble.'

#ClimateCrisis #food #farming #AgTwitter #NEWS
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The United States is the world’s 4th-largest wheat exporter & 'problems are hitting output at a time when the world can ill afford to lose any more supplies'

Worsening harvest prospects in China, parts of Europe & Indian export ban.

#ClimateCrisis #food
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#ClimateCrisis exacerbated extremes at play-

Kansas- 'winter wheat harvest potential there has fallen by more than 25% due to severe drought. Kansas farmers may abandon thousands of acres of wheat in fields this year'

In North Dakota, an 'historic' blizzard & flooding

last year "North Dakota was suffering from a record drought & so its corn & soybean yields were going to drop and they did— by like, 24%. This week we’re writing about how it’s too wet there & farmers can’t plant. That’s climate change..."

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"That’s climate change, this lack of predictability, this lack of stability itself that makes our food systems very, very fragile."

#ClimateCrisis #food #inflation #health #NEWS
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We're now seeing *some* 👆media coverage on current #ClimateChange impacts on food security

At the same time, there is growing coverage on how much worse climate change will get

What is almost entirely missing is how these intersect

It won't be pretty.

https://twitter.com/JimBair62221006/status/1510454379119218689

... So @CBCNews @BBCNews @CNN -how about coverage on:

How the world will feed itself with 2x the drought almost everywhere?

What will more frequent & larger heat domes, floods, wildfires & so much more extreme weather mean for crop yields?

Who will get to live & who will die?