2010 Arkansas Wheat Crop is the Smallest Since 1960s

The below article says that Arkansas' wheat crop is so small because of bad weather, lower grain prices and high input costs. Previously, Remixx World! reported on the stories that the American grain crops are also being shipped out of the country and how America planted the fewest wheat crop in nearly a century. No word on whether there is some type of connection, but it is alarming nonetheless that the crop yield is so low. People will ultimately have to pay the price at the grocery store.

Arkansas' wheat crop this year is the smallest since the 1960s, the result of bad weather, lower prices for grain, and high input costs.

About 200,000 acres of wheat were planted this year, down from 400,000 acres last year and 1 million acres the year before that.

"That's a big decline," said Jason Kelley, Extension agronomist, wheat and feed grains, for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture. "It's been a long time since we've had acreage that low.

Source: High West Plains / Midwest Ag Journal

See also:

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2. Record Numbers Go Hungry in the United States of America!

3. Illinois Corn and Soybean Harvests at Record Low Levels

4. HR 2749 - The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 (Totalitarian Control of the Food Supply?)

5. The Federal Government Turns Off Water to Fresno and San Joaquin Valley Farmers (No Food for the Masses?)

6. (Internationally too) - Britain Warns of Shrinking Food Supply in Next 20 Years

7. Is America's Grain Being Purposely Off Loaded Overseas to Trigger Massive Food Shortage Due to No Strategic Grain Reserves?

8. US Farmers Plant Fewest Wheat Crop Acres in Nearly a Century