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Will the 2012 U.S. Drought Burst the Farmland Property Bubble?
The Midwest drought continues to intensify. As you can see in this animation of how the 2012 drought has spread and deepened over the past 12 weeks, we’re witnessing a major climate impact on our...
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Biofuels Policy Flexible Enough to Weather the 2012 U.S. Drought
The drought parching the Midwest is raising serious questions about our agriculture and energy policies. Stocks of corn in storage were already low, and the intense dryness and heat means this year’s...
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The Drought-Heat Tango: Why Dry Conditions Can Lead to Even Higher Temperatures
The 2012 Drought in America series so far has looked at the immense impacts of the drought on farmers and taxpayers, impacts to the energy sector, how the drought may reshape American agriculture,...
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Coping With Drought: How to Build a More Resilient Agricultural System
Although I live on the East Coast far from the current drought, I get periodic reports from the front lines from my sister, who lives with her husband in eastern Kansas on 70 acres of grass and...
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Land Sparing, Water Saving, and the 2012 U.S. Drought
The drought of 2012 has reminded us that water is a scarce resource, even though we pay fractions of a penny per gallon for it and expect that it’ll be there every time we turn on the tap. We depend on...
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Will the 2012 U.S. Drought and Other Extreme Weather Events Trigger Another...
The impact of the 2012 drought on U.S. crops and livestock has been in the headlines for weeks now. Today the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its monthly food price...
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The 2012 U.S. Drought and Our Future
It’s now nearly a month since we started our series of blog posts on the 2012 Drought in America, and during that time we’ve seen its effects spread more and more widely through the network of...
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2013 Begins Without Respite from Drought
The latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor and predictions from National Weather Service were released today. They show a grim picture of continuing drought for the foreseeable future for large...
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Drought Pits Big River against Big Ag
The ongoing Midwest drought has had many repercussions. They include the fact that the Mississippi River—sometimes called “The Big Muddy”—is muddier than usual this year, causing problems and massive...
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Is the Drought a Perfect Storm for U.S. Beef?
In writing about climate change it’s hard to avoid the use of catch phrases and clichéd metaphors, as much we try to stop shooting silver bullets and keep all those pesky canaries out of our coal...
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