Forwarded from Ice Age Farmer
tl;dr: European Commission predicts yield of wheat/barley/corn will be down 2.5% YoY due to drought, "experts" rush to blame climate change:
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Europe is staring into one of its driest summers in living memory.
The drought has already crimped production of hydroelectric power and food, adding to market pressure from the war in Ukraine. Many city authorities have asked residents to cut back their use of drinking water.
With global food flows already squeezed, the drought has Europe’s farmers spooked. [IAF: perhaps not the word I would use for it.] Hungary's agriculture ministry said Wednesday that as of the beginning of the month it had received 8,413 drought damage notifications covering 322,000 hectares in 2022, three times the area of any previous first half of the year.
#EU #wheat #drought
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-temperature-heat-wave-drought/?amp;amp
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Europe is staring into one of its driest summers in living memory.
The drought has already crimped production of hydroelectric power and food, adding to market pressure from the war in Ukraine. Many city authorities have asked residents to cut back their use of drinking water.
With global food flows already squeezed, the drought has Europe’s farmers spooked. [IAF: perhaps not the word I would use for it.] Hungary's agriculture ministry said Wednesday that as of the beginning of the month it had received 8,413 drought damage notifications covering 322,000 hectares in 2022, three times the area of any previous first half of the year.
#EU #wheat #drought
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-temperature-heat-wave-drought/?amp;amp
POLITICO
Europe’s big dry
An ‘unprecedented’ drought grips much of the Continent with worse to come.