Climate Crisis Brings Historic Delay to Planting Season, Pressuring Farmers and Food Prices

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By Common DreamsMay 29, 2019, 10:07 am186 pts
By Eoin Higgins Farmers in the Midwest are watching the spring planting season shrink due to the climate crisis as damaging storms and flooding are making fields from Oklahoma to Arkansas impossible to sow, a situation that is driving grain prices up in futures markets in a way that could have devastating…

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