by John Galt January 29, 2012 21:00 ET Remember, the first portion in italics is fiction; for now. Mayor Troy Alderson was confident that the 2015 spring harvest would save his community from a winter food crisis this time. The weather in Northern Kansas was unusually bitter this past winter but the rains came as needed when spring arrived and for once the corn, beans, wheat, and vegetables were projected to yield so much more than in the past decade. He figured it…
By John Galt June 19, 2011 The crisis of the drought causing massive problems within Chinese agriculture in the central and northwestern portions of the country are now being complicated further by floods in the Southern part of the nation. Meanwhile, as outlined in a story from Xinhau this morning, Heavy Downpours damage farmland, inflates food prices in Eastern China, a substantial portion of production has already been impacted with little relief in sight. From the story: “This is the biggest flood I’ve ever…
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