Livestock owners under threat; five U.S. ethanol plants forced to shut
Flooding in the Midwest has damaged thousands of acres of cropland at a time when corn prices are already at record highs and Americans are stretching their grocery budgets.
Storms this week have inundated fields in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and other states where much of the world’s food is grown. The flooding also threatens livestock owners, who depend on the grain to feed their herds, and has forced the closures of five ethanol plants.
NVDL: If you pay attention to these 'weather/storm' disasters, you start to realise the direct impact the weather/climate is having on human survival. In SA wet coal caused power outages, Australia suffered flooding of coal mines (coal prices remain very high), the rice bowl in Myanmar was devastated by a cyclone, the Midwest affected by floods, and Australia recently again. The UK is also suffering more frequent flooding and Europe suffers heatwaves.
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