AGRICULTURE USA... un rapport sombre de plus

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Ils n' ont pas pu semer a cause des conditions météo, et ce qui a été semé  pousse tres mal..

PARTICULIEREMENT LE MAIS, COMME ILS CRAIGNAIENT, MAIS POUR LE  SOJA ADOPTE  FAUTE DE MIEUX...  CE N' EST GUERE ENCOURAGEANT.......


Over the past few months, I have written article after articleabout the unprecedented crisis that U.S. farmers are facing this year.  In those articles, I have always said that “millions” of acres of farmland did not get planted this year, because I knew that we did not have a final number yet.  Well, now we do, and it is extremely troubling.  Of course there are some people out there that do not even believe that we are facing a crisis, and a few have even accused me of overstating the severity of the problems that U.S. farmers are currently dealing with.  Sadly, things are not as bad as I thought – the truth is that they are even worse.  According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, crops were not planted on 19.4 million acres of U.S. farmland this year.  The following comes directly from the official website of the USDA….
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....In fact, according to the latest crop progress report only 57 percent of the corn is considered to be in “good” or “excellent” shape.
Unfortunately, the nation’s soybean crop is in even worse shape.  At this point, only 54 percent of the soybeans are in “good” or “excellent” shape.
In addition, only 8 percent of the U.S. spring wheat crop has been harvested so far.  That is “sharply below the 30% five-year average”.

So what does all of this mean?

Well, it means that we have a real crisis on our hands.  A lot less crops are being grown, and a substantial percentage of the crops that are being grown are not in good shape.  Yields are going to be way down across the board, and that means that U.S. agricultural production is going to be way, way below initial expectations.