Florida Declares Emergency
as Cold Weather Threatens Crops
With an oncoming unstoppable international food shortage already predicted by the United Nations this year we can lump another frozen harvest of Florida crops to the mix of shorted food supplies. This will indeed put more pressure on the cost of food at the market place where we all get to pay the piper. Perhaps America should worry about starving Americans first and stop shipping our food stores overseas until we have taken care of our problems here at home.
If the rest of the world is starving that bad they can get to America very easy, just cross our Southern Border and it free food, schools, health care and housing a plenty! Just Ask Obama!.
Freezing Temps Threaten Florida Crops
A very cold air mass coming into the eastern half of the country will move south into Florida, plunging night time temperatures below freezing Monday and Tuesday nights.
Farmers in Florida will have to take measures to protect vulnerable fruit and vegetable crops from the cold. The critical temperature for citrus is 28 F or lower and the critical temperature for vegetables is 32 F or lower, according to AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist, Dale Mohler.
“There will be two cold nights but Monday night will be the coldest,” Mohler said. “The temperatures Monday night will be 24 to 30 degrees, and the temperatures Tuesday night will be 25-32 degrees.” Source : accuweather.com
So hang on and stock up America. You do not want to be left out in the cold with no food.
“The coldest night is actually tonight,” said Jason Nicholls, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather. “There could be light damage” to oranges, he said. “The bigger problem will be for vegetables and strawberries.
“Florida is expected to produce 143 million boxes of oranges in the harvest that started in October and will run into July. In October, the crop was estimated at 146 million boxes.
The destruction of crops threatens Florida with a “major disaster,” Gov. Charlie Crist said in a statement. Some areas may be subject to freezes through Dec. 15.
Source:http://srph.it/gvv1jD
Jon
December 13, 2010
Since Obama took office the number of illegal immigrants entering the country has declined significantly. The numbers were MUCH higher under Bush.
In any industrialized case, food production depends on natural gas and oil. Land is the medium by which we turn fossil fuels into food. The fossil fuels are running out fast. One of two things will happen soon: 1) we will stop using fossil fuels to produce food and food production will decline by 50% and food prices will quadruple; or 2) we will use $300/barrel oil for food production, food production will stay the same (or decrease for other reasons such as erratic/inhospitable climate), and food prices will quadruple because oil prices spike as the world runs down. Either way, quadruple prices for food. Prepare accordingly. I highly doubt civilization as we know it will last for long as we head down the Olduvai cliff, which will be beginning in a couple of years.
notalemming
December 13, 2010
DUH!!! Its hard to get a damn job in an over burdened Wealth Redistribution society. go ahead and BLAME BUSH. This is OBAMA’S MESS now. Fossil fuels are not running out. Food prices will triple because of emerging markets in India and China and other countries with advancing societies. Oh yes Oil will effect this but not as much as policies the stake from those that work and give to those that do not. And that Olduvai cliff you mention, the front tires of our economic vehicle are over the edge already. We will not have to wait for Obama’s demise in 2012.