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Blessings Darlings!

It's Lughnasadh!  Let's talk wheat!

SOME Examiner.com writers are fucking morons.  One posted her article on a Prepper list I'm on.  She went on about how the drought trashed the winter wheat crop.  Except ... it hasn't.  The crop has been harvested a bit early due to the drought (no rain slow downs), but even Kansas, HARD hit by the drought, had a great winter wheat crop.  Winter wheat in the US finished being harvested in the middle of July.

I think that the author can't tell winter wheat, which was planted late last fall, from spring wheat which was planted this spring.  Spring wheat IS likely to be affected, but it's a far smaller crop than the winter wheat is.  Spring wheat is just beginning to be harvested now.  I've never lived in an area that grows any.  Here the rotation is corn one year, beans the next followed by a fall planting of winter wheat the second year, then harvest the winter wheat and plant beans year 3. 

Corn and soy beans ARE going to be affected, of course, as will all the things with those crops in them, from vegetable oils to meat to soda.  Prices of 'veggies' might rise 5% due to increased cost of irrigation, but amounts of them shouldn't be affected much. Local veggies and soft fruits are going to be more price-competitive with supermarket ones.

Still, in the US we spend a WAY smaller percentage of our income on food, so we're going to be hit far less than most other countries.  Without imported grains, there will be famine.  People will die.  Rulers will be overthrown.

Buckle up.

Frondly, Fern

You Say You Want a Revolution

Blessings, Darlings!

When it comes to divination/astrology/etc - I suck.  One major hit in 25 years of practice, everything else noise/random.

But there are others out there who say they are good at it.  LET THEM COME FORTH!

I want to know what they think is going to happen in 'the Middle East' - which I am extending to include Algeria to the West and Iran to the east.  Revolution is afoot in Egypt and Tunisia already, the govt of Lebanon has fallen.  Will the Islamic Brotherhood, supported by only about 30% of the country but has at least some infrastructure in place, form a new government in Egypt?  Will other middle eastern government fall? Will the US get more blame - the protesters in Egypt have noted where the tear gas used against them has come from, and the US has supported their dictator for decades. 

What will all this do to oil prices, and thus to worldwide food supplies?  If food supplies are affected, what other governments will fall?

What say you, Astrologers, Psychics, Tarot Readers, etc?

Frondly, the very worried Fern