Sorry, TR. Part 3. Time marches on. Hopefully marching on into eternity this month. Wouldn't that be nice? :yahoo: Hopefully this is the last Part 🙂 Either by rapture or I just wont start a Part 4 page. B-) After 895 entries we are STILL on part 3! 😉 Mega drought is coming ... some farmers are not even going to attempt to plant anything and others will and hope for a miracle of “rain”. This includes North Dakota ... that region grows wheat ... so they are urging people to stock up on flour and pasta. The map below shows the areas with lack of rain ... what is weird is they have Vermont in a mild drought stage and I find that odd because it snowed pretty much every day this winter and its been raining almost every day this spring. :scratch: Now if they said farmers can’t plant because the ground is too wet .. that is a different story. But I think the map is accurate for the western states with the lack of rain ... signs of the rider on the black horse (famine and high prices) Farmers Warn That The Megadrought In The Western US Threatens To Cause Devastating Crop Failures In 2021 ZeroHedge By Tyler Darden Throughout U.S. history, there have always been droughts in the western half of the country from time to time, but what we are dealing with now is truly alarming. Scientists tell us that a multi-year “megadrought” has developed in the southwestern portion of the country, and this is the worst year of that “megadrought” so far by a wide margin. If conditions do not radically improve soon, we are going to have a major agricultural disaster on our hands. Some farmers have already decided not to plant crops at all this year, but many others have decided to plant anyway knowing that if enough rain doesn’t come their crops will certainly fail. As I have discussed previously, the epicenter of this “megadrought” is the Four Corners region in the Southwest, but this drought is so immense it is even causing immense nightmares for farmers as far away as North Dakota. In fact, the first few months of this year were the driest that North Dakota has seen in 126 years… The period of January to March 2021 was the driest in 126 years for North Dakota. Farmers are starting to make difficult decisions on planting and culling herds as the governor of the state declared a statewide drought disaster on April 8. Soil moistures across the state, particularly in western portions of North Dakota, are lacking sufficient moisture to sustain normal crop development growth. The first eight days of April 2021 offered little help as hot, summer-like temperatures, gusty winds, and low humidity across the state accelerated drying conditions. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, well over half the state is now experiencing “severe drought”. Perhaps you don’t care about what is happening in North Dakota, but you should, because much of the wheat that we use for pasta and flour comes from that region… Things are dry and dusty in the Upper Midwest, the Northern Plains states and the Prairie provinces of Canada. This region, spanning states such as North Dakota and provinces such as Manitoba, is the most important one for spring wheat, the higher-gluten variety that’s used for pasta or mixed with other wheat for all-purpose flour. And that crop is at significant risk, because conditions in the region are pretty dire this year. In a previous article I discussed the dramatic rise in food prices that we have been witnessing lately, and now drought fears are pushing futures prices for spring wheat quite a bit higher… The US Drought Monitor shows around 70 percent of North Dakota in “extreme drought” conditions, with most of the rest in the slightly less scary “severe drought” rating. As a result, the futures prices of both spring wheat and canola are at their highest in years, with traders expecting a lower harvest this year. “We’ve still got to give that crop every chance we think we can get, but at the same time, we also can’t waste a lot of money on a crop that we don’t think we’re going to have going into it,”he says. What a nightmare. Right now, nearly the entire state of Texas is in some level of drought, and we haven’t even gotten to the summer months yet. To call this a “plague” would be a major understatement. On the border of Oregon and California, farmers just learned that water levels are so low that they will only get “a tiny fraction of the water they need” in 2021… Hundreds of farmers who rely on a massive irrigation project that spans the Oregon-California border learned Wednesday they will get a tiny fraction of the water they need amid the worst drought in decades, as federal regulators attempt to balance the needs of agriculture against federally threatened and endangered fish species that are central to the heritage of several tribes. Oregon’s governor said the prolonged drought in the region has the “full attention of our offices,” and she is working with congressional delegates, the White House and federal agencies to find relief for those affected. Elsewhere in California, water allocation reductions of up to 95 percent are forcing many farmers to make some exceedingly heartbreaking decisions… Drought conditions are already forcing Valley farmers to make difficult decisions when it comes to their crops as many are facing severe water restrictions. “There’s districts throughout California that have experienced up to 95% reductions in water,” says Fresno County Farm Bureau CEO Ryan Jacobsen. U.S. food production will be down in 2021, but if sufficient rain starts falling in the western U.S. we could still see a miracle. But if enough rain does not fall, we are going to see epic crop failures. Meanwhile, it is being projected that the drought will cause the water level in Lake Mead to soon fall to the lowest level ever recorded… Wracked by drought, climate change and overuse, a key reservoir on the Colorado River could sink to historically low levels later this year, new US government projections show, potentially triggering significant water cutbacks in some states as early as next year. The projections released by the US Bureau of Reclamation show that Lake Mead — the largest reservoir in the country and a vital water supply to millions across the Southwest — could fall later this year to its lowest levels since it was filled in the 1930s. If you live anywhere in the western half of the country, you should brace yourself for severe water restrictions. And all of us need to brace ourselves for much higher prices at the grocery store. For decades, the western half of the country was blessed with unusually high levels of rainfall, but that wasn’t going to last forever. Now Dust Bowl conditions have returned, and farmers, ranchers and local authorities are starting to panic. As this megadrought continues to intensify, life is going to dramatically change in the western half of the nation, and that is going to deeply affect all of us. - Fair Use - I can envision this scenario as another illustration of God making provision for the unsaved to seek Him. He is knocking on the door as stated in Scripture. We may see the beginning of the further weakening of the US in the global economy but will be gone before chastisement becomes wrath and judgement. It's been a relatively dry Spring in the Pacific Northwest. Summers are typically dry here where we sometimes go a month without rainfall. Could be a recipe for disaster here, as well. Right now as I’m typing and looking out the front bay window .... the rain switched over to ... SNOW! :groan I’m soooo sick of this white stuff ... Being chosen before the foundations of creation were laid, speaks to God's seeing the end times before time! We are all privy to free will! God wants to know who chooses and loves him! As like with any marriage relationship both parties must be in agreement! Lastly, there is a weeding out of those who would possibly rebel as like the Angel's before them! Again, a bridegroom can only rest assured when the bride has also chosen him! TR Geri, I can't believe you're still getting snow up there! I feel your pain; it's raining in PA but we certainly get our share of snow. So, let's add volcano's as we buckle up. Monkey Werx is a Christian man who monitors the airlines in the skies on YouTube. He also does "Monkey Minutes" which he devotes to the signs of our times. Today he dedicated his show to Volcanoes and their increased activity (he referred to as "birth pains"). He showed a chart of volcanic activity in the last 10,000 years. I can't figure out how to cut and paste the chart he used, so I'm just attaching the link to the video. The chart is at the 11 minute mark of the 12.36 minute video. Since the 20th century, we have had 3,542 volcanoes; before that, the chart shows a miniscule number. We have always had volcanoes but the block chart shows just how much increased activity is taking place. He is tying the effects of volcanoes in relation to the end time prophecies: The sun becoming black as sackcloth; pillars of smoke, covering the heavens and making the stars dark, the moon and the sun are darkened, the moon will not shed its light. I'm not doing this justice; but he did at: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 06:45 PM
Despite all of our advanced technology, farmers can’t grow crops if it doesn’t rain, and a farmer in Texas named Blake Fennell says that his farm has not had any significant rain in almost two years.
Do you think that you could run a successful farm under such conditions?
