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Food scarcity: the timebomb setting nation against nation | Global development | The Observer: Brandon Hunnicutt has had a year to remember. The young Nebraskan from Hamilton County farms 2,600 acres of the High Plains with his father and brother. What looked certain in an almost perfect May to be a “phenomenal” harvest of maize and soy beans has turned into a near disaster.
A three-month heatwave and drought with temperatures often well over 38C burned up his crops. He lost a third and was saved only by pumping irrigation water from the aquifer below his farm…
… On the other side…
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2012-12-04 19:04:49 Source: http://www.backwoodssurvivalblog.com/2012/12/food-scarcity-timebomb-setting-nation.html