Most coverage of the difficulties plaguing the 2019 US season has revolved around the consequences of our “wettest year ever.” Rightly so, as the flooding across the nation continues to effect a substantial (and often fatal) blow to farmers’ operations. The flooding has been widely covered in most media, to the exclusion of another important factor: temperatures are much colder this year than the previous.
While the media is less vocal about this aspect, it is no secret. The University of Minnesota shared a graphic demonstrating that this has been the coldest and wettest season since 1920.
The extent of delayed planting of the 2019 U.S. corn crop appears to be coalescing around the idea that, in general, the U.S. corn crop is around three weeks late. With that in mind, the temperature trend takes on extra urgency for the crop.
And, at this point, temperatures are not cooperating on the side of growing degree day accumulation. Most of this June 10-14 week has average temperatures across the central U.S. forecast at from 4 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit below normal. And this cool pattern stays in effect for the entire remainder of the month of June.
There is still time, but growing degree day count will be a big detail the rest of this season. After all, a lot of the prime time has, literally, floated away.
Let’s take a closer look at this “growing degree day count,” as it may offer insight.
Growing Degree Days
Growing Degree Days are a measure of heat accumulation used to predict crop maturity. In the absence of extreme conditions such as unseasonal drought or disease, plants grow in a cumulative stepwise manner which is strongly influenced by the ambient temperature. In other words, GDD values provide a best case outlook as to plants’ pace to maturity.
If your GDD drops below certain thresholds, certain crops can no longer be grown.
GDD is calculated as the sum of daily temperature averages in excess of a given threshold, often 10C/50F (maize), but this can be different for certain crops.
Down 43%!?
Tim Agnew of Big Nugget Farm wrote me, noting that GDD in his neck of the woods has plummeted 43% from 2018. Several sites make this data available, including Syngenta’s GreenCast.
Checking a few more locations, I found that each had experienced a significant drop in GDD. Stunned, I went about collecting the data for every US ZIP code.
95% of US ZIP codes experienced a colder growing season in 2019 than 2018.
On average, a US ZIP code received 87.2% of the heat accumulation as in 2019 — a 12.8% drop!
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This data actually helps to quantify our shifting growing zones:
Corn
Corn requires ~ 2000 GDD to reach maturity.
There are 5,277 US ZIP codes that exceeded 2000 GDD in 2018 and have fallen beneath in 2019. These areas can no longer grow corn (it may look great, but it won’t reach maturity before first frost).
Oats
Oats require 1500 GDD
There are 1,813 US ZIP codes that exceeded 1500 GDDs in 2018 but fell beneath this in 2019, no longer able to grow Oats.
As the Solar Minimum forces temperatures to decline further, more and more of the planet will lose the ability to farm as we have been. And, again, this statement is based only on cooler temperatures, and does not factor in increased cloud cover, precipitative extremes, hail storms, or still other effects of Galactic Cosmic Rays.
North Dakota 2018/2019 Accumulated GDD Difference: Note that RED STILL MEANS COLDER!
30-yr Anomaly
Clearly 2019 has been colder than 2018. To put these 2019 values in perspective, we can look to longer term averages of GDD:
2019 GDD Anomaly vs. 30-yr
This makes our “cold” year feel somewhat less extreme — we can relax a bit, things aren’t that bad! But why such an extreme drop off from 2018 to 2019?
The last such significantly colder season year-over-year was 2008 to 2009:
2019, like 2009, ran colder than usual.
So what do 2009 and 2019 have in common? Both years are marked by low solar activity, during a deep Solar Minimum:
This means that as we enter an extended minimum — a Grand Solar Minimum — we must expect shorter and cooler growing seasons to continue. These, particularly combined with increased cloud cover (see Svensmark’s Cloud Mystery), and temperature/precipitative extremes caused by meridional flows of a weak jetstream, merit our full attention.
Even NASA is calling for weakest solar cycle in decades — many models suggest we have entered an extended period of weak solar activity
Modern agriculture is highly bespoke, with little tolerance for conditions to deviate without catastrophic cascading failures. The systems upon which civilized society is wholly dependent to eat are now failing.
In this crisis, however, lies the opportunity to replace toxic petrochemical agriculture en masse with permaculture and other regenerative practices, and return to indigenous knowledge and values. We all know massive change must happen — and now we witness a catalyst. Be the change.
Christian of Ice Age Farmer joins Jay Weidner and Yvonne Paleremo’s REALiTY CHeCK to discuss natural cycles of the sun and climate, and the risks to our food supply.
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Jay Weidner and Yvonne Palermo are joined by Christian Westbrook as we discuss the idea that the world may in fact be cooling instead of warming. Christian AKA Ice Age Farmer talks about realistic attempts to deal with the coming cold and how we can mitigate its effects.
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Christian Westbrook is creator of the ICE AGE FARMER channel on Youtube, discussing the natural cycles of the sun and associated risks as we enter a Grand Solar Minimum. He encourages and educates people to take steps today and every day to grow their own food and move towards self-sufficiency.
Christian has a background in Artificial Intelligence, practices Reiki, and is a father to two boys. He and his wife relocated their family out of the city to start building a more resilient lifestyle — and found that it is also a much better, healthier one.
Del Monte is closing US production plants (in WI, MN, and IL) and moving operations further South…or indoors! Likewise, Cargill sold off all assets in Ontario. Tyson fire offlines 6% of US beef pipeline. As major components of modern agriculture are failing, the more significant realization is that these conglomerates have ALREADY GIVEN UP on the current grow zones and started preparing for the tougher growing seasons ahead. Have you? START GROWING TODAY.
#GrandSolarMinimum #MagneticReversal
Modern agriculture is unable to cope with the perfect cosmic storm of changes — START GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD TODAY!
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ER physician “Dr. D” joins Christian to share some clinical observations around medical issues like increasing Vitamin D deficiency in the Grand Solar Minimum, as well as medical preparations and the need to practice skills such as suturing.
Modern agriculture is unable to cope with the perfect cosmic storm of changes — START GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD TODAY!
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ER physician “Dr. D” joins Christian to speak about discovering the Grand Solar Minimum, moving his family, parenting, and preparing his home for harsh winters and heavy snow loads. He also mentions rapidly increasing grocery bills that should be encouraging everyone to start growing their own food. The interview is continued in part 2.
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The US Pro Farm Crop Tour was shut down after a farmer “threatened” USDA officials. Steelworkers laid off due to lower demand for cans — BECAUSE THERE ARE NO CROPS TO CAN! Major shifts are happening EVERY DAY as we enter the difficult growing seasons of the Grand Solar Minimum.
Modern agriculture is unable to cope with the perfect cosmic storm of changes — START GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD TODAY!
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NOAA’s National temps (USCRN/ClimDiv) — temps declining:
Cartels seek to control avocado trade
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/10466-cartel-war-seeks-to-control-avocado-trade-in-mexico
https://www.newsweek.com/19-people-have-been-murdered-mexico-cartels-fighting-over-avocado-trade-1453925
China:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3022136/china-scientists-warn-global-cooling-trick-natures-sleeve China Shifts Purchase Priorities From Manufacturing Materials to Food…
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3023019/us-china-trade-war-hits-africas-cobalt-and-copper-mines-4400
Corn returning after pro farmer crop tour finds spotty yields:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/19/reuters-america-grains-corn-rebounds-as-crop-tour-estimates-lower-u-s-yields.html
https://www.agweb.com/article/inconsistent-sparse-fields-plague-south-dakota
AgWx Outlook — not much warmth in forecast for corn to mature:
Commodity Weather Group states "no definitive frost risk" in the 16- to 30-day, although risks are elevated. But what I see is an absence of heat units for finishing crops. #corn#oattpic.twitter.com/o4T558e4Rn
Christian of Ice Age Farmer joins Frank Tufano’s Perfected Health Podcast to discuss climate, the many threats to our food supply, and the importance of growing our own food and moving towards self-sufficient communities.
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Analysts warn of a mid-/late September frost threatening late corn crop. Seed shortages loom as 5x the record prevent plant acres need cover crop. A new study out of China warns of cooling cycles with catastrophic consequences. And the USDA’s new report signals they will stave off crisis as long as possible — at the expense of farmers. AN ATTACK ON FARMERS IS AN ATTACK ON OUR FOOD SUPPLY. Christian breaks it all down.
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Chinese Scientists Warn of a Global Cooling Trick up Nature’s Sleeve
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3022136/china-scientists-warn-global-cooling-trick-natures-sleeve
As predicted, now that crop losses and canned food shortages have entered public consciousness, the new UN IPCC’s report (and media propaganda) dictates that Global Warming is decimating food production, and food scarcity looms. This is to mask the natural cycles and Grand Solar Minimum, in order to take total control of the food supply and, transitively, humanity.
START GROWING TODAY!
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a period during which solar activity diminishes, resulting in drastic climatic and geophysical changes to our planet. These include increased galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), seismic activity, and volcanism; the latter often results in a global reduction in temperatures (see “the year without a summer” — and much more on the IAF wiki).
