Reply #1: I won't be surprised if food supplies already get pressured due to this

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One of our kids recently visited us in Central WI from Kansas, and said that the phrase 'dust bowl' is on a lot of people's lips out there this summer.

Also, apparently MN lost almost all of it's corn crop, and the states to the west and south of it are doing even worse. That's where most of the corn comes from, you know? Corn around here isn't doing so bad, since we've had more rain, but not a lot of that gets exported out of WI (not a lot left over after we eat some and feed the cows with much of the rest).

Finally, anyone got a current death toll on CA cattle? Last I'd heard, they'd lost over 25,000 cows ( mostly dairy cows, apparently) to the heat and drought this last few weeks.

And those are the nation's BREADBASKETS we're talking about...

I'm expecting to see prices reflect the drought as soon as this fall and winter.