Historic Midwest Blizzard Has Farmers “Expecting Massive Crop Losses”

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“As Devastating As We’ve Ever Seen”
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“Historic Midwest Blizzard Has Farmers “Expecting Massive Crop Losses – As Devastating As We’ve Ever Seen”

14 October 2019
by Michael Snyder


An unprecedented October blizzard that hit just before harvest time has absolutely devastated farms all across the U.S. heartland.

One state lawmaker in North Dakota is saying that the crop losses will be “as devastating as we’ve ever seen”.  This is the exact scenario that I have been warning about for months, and now it has materialized.  Due to endless rain and horrific flooding early in the year, many farmers in the middle of the country faced very serious delays in getting their crops planted.  So we really needed good weather at the end of the season so that the crops could mature and be harvested in time, and that did not happen.  Instead, the historic blizzard that we just witnessed…

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