Farmers Getting More Anxious Over Crops

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Farmers in the United States and Australia needed to have record crops this year to feed a hungry world, but US farmers have had too much rain for their corn and soybean crops, and Australia hasn't had enough for their wheat.


Peter Newcomb for The New York Times
Corn on the Kron farm that should be knee-high is only several inches above the ground.

In a year when global harvests need to be excellent to ease the threat of pervasive food shortages, evidence is mounting that they will be average at best. Some farmers are starting to fear disaster.

By DAVID STREITFELD and KEITH BRADSHER

This is bad news for all of us. Farmers have planted (or at least plowed the fields) for a huge crop this year, and to have these crops fail would be a disaster. The world needs this food in a bad way, but it just may not happen.
We can only hope the weather will start to cooperate, and that they can save those crops.

Farmers Getting More Anxious Over Crops