Fears of New Dust Bowl Hit USA

We already know that 2012 has been the hottest year EVER....so how is that working for the corn and bean crop this year?  Remember, corn is in 95% of everything we eat and drink in the form of corn starch, corn flower, corn sweetener, cattle feed, chicken feed, and hog feed...so if corn prices go up then ALL FOOD PRICES are going up.

Oh yeah...and let's not forget that we BURN MILLIONS OF BUSHELS of corn to produce alcohol to mix with our gasoline to burn in our cars and trucks.  Wouldn't it be interesting if we were the first society who burned all their food and then starved to death? 

HARTFORD CITY, Ind. — Across a wide stretch of the Midwest, sweltering temperatures and a lack of rain are threatening what had been expected to be the nation’s largest corn crop in generations.
   
Already, some farmers in Illinois and Missouri have given up on parched and stunted fields, mowing them over. National experts say parts of five corn-growing states, including Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, are experiencing severe or extreme drought conditions. And in at least nine states, conditions in one-fifth to one-half of cornfields have been deemed poor or very poor, federal authorities reported this week, a notable shift from the high expectations of just a month ago.

“It all quickly went from ideal to tragic,” said Don Duvall, a farmer in Illinois who, in what was a virtually rainless June, has watched two of his cornfields dry up and die as others remain in some uncertain in-between.

“Every day that passes, more corn will be abandoned,” Mr. Duvall said. “But even if it starts raining now, there will not be that bumper crop of corn everyone talked about.”

“You wake up every morning with that churning in your stomach,” said Eric Aulbach, a farmer here in central Indiana, who gazed out across a field of corn he ought not to be able to gaze across by now.

John Hawkins, a spokesman for the Illinois Farm Bureau, said those in the southernmost sections of his state “are close to or past that point of no return,” while elsewhere, “there’s a lot of praying; it’s hanging on by a thread.” 

“These 100-degree temperatures are just sucking the life out of everything,” he said.

Here;  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48076883/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/#.T_WfTPVnWGA

Yep, I bet there has been a lot of praying.  But will the prayers of a few farmers work for whole nation?

I can't imagine the stress of being a farmer and seeing your beautiful corn crop just shrivel up and die...knowing that you invested a whole bunch of money to put the crop in...and now you are going to get nothing out.  All of your hard work just dries up and blows away.

Remember what the Bible says in Revelation 6:6, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine."  So we know from this verse that during the Tribulation many men will be working all day long just to get money to buy enough food to survive for another day.

If 60-70% of the U.S. corn crop fails...we may be a lot closer to those days than anyone realizes.

Lord, have mercy.