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Drought stress. Currently, half of the production area in the U.S. for cotton crops is experiencing drought, as is 43% of rice producing areas, 78% of sorghum, and 53% of winter wheat, according ...
American Farm Bureau Federation Economist Daniel Munch joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss how ongoing weather conditions, specifically drought, are having a devastating impact on U.S. agriculture.
Drought significantly reduced harvests in North America including the United States which produces a quarter of the world grains. The years from 2020 to 2021 were the driest in centuries in North America. The production of crops in the Midwest declined by 20% in this period. [14]
The drought conditions were not as bad as the mid 1970s drought. [47] [48] June was notably dry, especially after a very dry May. The worst affected regions were England and Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland also had below average rainfall, but this was unexceptional. Some places had no rain at all. [49]
The 2012–2013 North American drought, an expansion of the 2010–2013 Southern United States drought, originated in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave.Low snowfall amounts in winter, coupled with the intense summer heat from La Niña, caused drought-like conditions to migrate northward from the southern United States, wreaking havoc on crops and water supply. [1]
Europe is facing its worst drought in 500 years, with two-thirds of the continent under stressed conditions, according to a study conducted by the European Commission.
A 2020 study from the Irish Centre for High-End Computing indicated that Ireland's climate is likely to change drastically by 2050. [15] Annual average temperatures could climb to 1.6 °C above pre-industrial levels under RCP8.5, with the east of Ireland seeing the highest increase, resulting in a "direct impact" on public health and mortality.
Rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels made this summer's brutal drought across the Northern Hemisphere — which dried up rivers, sparked unprecedented wildfires and led ...