How much crop loss will there be do to the weather this year?

Question

How much crop loss will there be do to the weather this year?

Answer 1

everyone is jumping up and down about the flood and yes it is bad and yes we had a cool wet spring for every acre that was flooded in ag production their is at least a hunderd that didnot flood we are going to have about the same crop this year as we always do on the average the media and people who don't farm blow everything out of proportion which it has done wonders for the grain market don't worry the crop might be a little short but we have years like this always have and always will next year we may have another drought who knows but we haven't starved yet and i don't think we are going to this year

Answer 2

It flooded around here too, and everybody is replanting what they can.  I don't think anybody can say for sure until harvest how much crop loss there will be.  Hopefully we have a decent summer!

Answer 3

There will be millions lost this year because of the flood alone. Even if people get to replant it will cost millions for new seed, etc, as well as loss due to lower yields because of late planting. There is always crop losses due to dry weather somewhere, and losses due to early or late frosts, hail damages, etc. Add them all up and you are looking at millions lost due to weather. I might add here that I don't contribute these losses to global warming, (that looks like where you are headed with this question) they are losses that are always with us. It is part of farming. Some years, like this one, they are worse than normal.

Answer 4

From Iowa alone, it was estimated that a total of 3.5 million acres of crops were destroyed. This number is a combo of the soybean and corn.

Answer 5

A Lot!

As a Midwesterner, I can tell you that we are having some really hard times here.  In Iowa, many areas have up to 75% of the fields unplanted because it was such a cool, moist spring.  Those that were lucky enough to get seed into the ground were then hit by the flooding and now have parts of their fields missing because the crop rotted while sitting under water.  For example, when you drive through Iowa there is a stench of rotting vegetation from all the water.

Other surrounding states were also affect by the cool temps and flooding.  Between the lack of crops and the ever-inflating oil prices, my guess is that this fall will be rather interesting... and not in a good way.