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Artfully arranged photos. Look at the rest of the field, in the background: they got a crop out of most of that. "estimates that more than one of every ten whe

Artfully arranged photos. Look at the rest of the field, in the background: they got a crop out of most of that. "estimates that more than one of every ten wheat fields in Kansas will be abandoned," ... that could be one producer letting fields go fallow? wouldn't they put in plowdown soybean as a green manure once the wheat was declared "failed"? Or is there some insurance term that would prevent that?

ShivShankaran 4y ago
are you saying that this news is disinformation?
- h2odragon 4y ago
  No moreso than any other press release. "Slanted" might be a better term.
  - lost-found 4y ago
    Based on your interpretation of some pictures? Or do you have actual data or facts to back up what you’re claiming?
    - Dan_Sylveste 4y ago
      What specifically are they claiming and what data or facts would you wish to receive to back up that claim? To me it just looks like they're stating their opinion.
      - chaostheory 4y ago
        Drought will eventually make farming in the West untenable, lowering overall food production. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
jasonlaramburu 4y ago
Just because you produce a crop doesn't mean it's economical to harvest it. Farmers must produce sufficient yield to cover the cost of harvesting (fuel, manpower, equipment cost, etc) or they will just leave the failed crop to decompose.
- anjel 4y ago
  The farmer may look disapointed in the photos, but with gov't FCIP crop insurance, he gets paid whether his crop grows or not. So this is a negative event for the federal budget and taxpayers, but wheat farmers, get paid 85-90% of what the crop would have been worth at market, in the event of crop failures like this. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46686 https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46686 I believe this kind of risk mitigation is available to AgriCorps as well as individual farmers for all the major crops like cotton, soy etc.

ShivShankaran 4y ago

are you saying that this news is disinformation?

h2odragon 4y ago
No moreso than any other press release. "Slanted" might be a better term.
- lost-found 4y ago
  Based on your interpretation of some pictures? Or do you have actual data or facts to back up what you’re claiming?
  - Dan_Sylveste 4y ago
    What specifically are they claiming and what data or facts would you wish to receive to back up that claim? To me it just looks like they're stating their opinion.
    - chaostheory 4y ago
      Drought will eventually make farming in the West untenable, lowering overall food production. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

jasonlaramburu 4y ago

Just because you produce a crop doesn't mean it's economical to harvest it. Farmers must produce sufficient yield to cover the cost of harvesting (fuel, manpower, equipment cost, etc) or they will just leave the failed crop to decompose.

anjel 4y ago
The farmer may look disapointed in the photos, but with gov't FCIP crop insurance, he gets paid whether his crop grows or not. So this is a negative event for the federal budget and taxpayers, but wheat farmers, get paid 85-90% of what the crop would have been worth at market, in the event of crop failures like this. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46686 https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46686 I believe this kind of risk mitigation is available to AgriCorps as well as individual farmers for all the major crops like cotton, soy etc.