""We have 400 acres of beautiful wheat that's almost ready for harvest..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/10/mississippi-river-crests-2011-memphis-floods_n_859816.html

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Mississippi River crested in Memphis at nearly 48 feet on Tuesday, falling inches short of its all-time record but still soaking low-lying areas with enough water to require a massive cleanup.

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To the south, residents in the Mississippi Delta prepared for the worst. Farmers built homemade levees to protect their crops and engineers diverted water into a lake to ease the pressure levees around New Orleans. Inmates in the Louisiana's largest prison were also evacuated to higher ground.

Scott Haynes, 46, estimated he would spend more than $80,000 on contractors to build levees around his house and grain silos, which hold 200,000 bushels of rice that he can't get out before the water comes. Heavy equipment has been mowing down his wheat fields to get to the dirt that is being used to build the levees, and he expected nearly all of his farmland to flood.

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"We have 400 acres of beautiful wheat that's almost ready for harvest. We have about a thousand acres of corn that's chest high and just waiting on a combine (to harvest it). That's going to be gone," Jordan said. "I don't know what is going to happen to our houses."

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That's our food, folks.

May just be some damned interesting times ahead.

I don't give a damn what their politics are. They're Americans. They're ours. They need help.

I have a friend who spends her vacations helping rebuild New Orleans. We're going to need a lot more people like that in a lot more places.

Can't they get help to quickly harvest their crops, at least? :(

SO relieved to read Graceland is safe :eyes:

Our food prices are going to be really ugly this year. And if it keeps up, money won't help. We'll be facing real shortages. Russian wheat last summer. Our spring wheat now. Climate change means famine because we haven't prepared for the changes.

I keep telling people, now is the time to arrange marriages for your children with Canadian wheat farmers.

The climate is changing everywhere, becoming drier in some areas and wetter in others. Crops that have been planted there for centuries are simply going to have to change to plants that are adapted to the new conditions. The longer we keep struggling against what-is and keep stubbornly planting the old crops (with desperate stop-gap enhancements such as artificial fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides), the longer it's going to take to make the necessary shift. We need to start adapting *right now*, just as every species in nature has to adapt to new conditions, or go extinct.

That sounds like BS to me. I am in a rural, agricultural county in VA (one state to the north of TN) and we are just planting our corn. Even with a very early plant date and fertilizer, I dont see how that what he said is possible.