The prophesied famine comes to mind – Texas farmers facing ‘total loss for this year’

Greetings,

We have been telling how the Bible teaches us that in order to force the prodigal sons(& daughters) back to their own, prophecy tells us that a famine took the land and the job markets dried up. These things in combination made this Prodigal child take a second look at His father’s house.

Being hungry and desperate, he was forced to humble himself and reject that world and life that he was mesmerized by because the illusion quickly dissipated and therefore he had to return to His father’s house humbled that he may take his place as the ruler over this vast empire of righteousness.

These things are a sign of you and how you are now being forced by time, circumstances, and events to take a second look at what your father, Allah in person has offered you through the sacrifice of His son, The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, because everything of this wicked world is dying and dissipating.

Hunger is a very convincing force that is coming to your living room soon! Here is another sign of this!

Texas farmers facing ‘total loss for this year’

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Texas’ farmers were among the first to applaud the rain that abruptly halted a grueling multiyear drought that had tormented the region.

But what began as a blessing has turned quickly into a disaster, as corn and wheat crops rot in flooded fields.

“I think it is not all farmers, but some farmers are looking at a total loss for this year,” said Mike Barnett, a spokesperson for the Texas Farm Bureau. “You have some situations where farmers had a bumper crop, and now they have next to nothing for the season.”

The downpour has doused Texas with 35 trillion gallons-about the amount it would take to cover the entire state in eight inches of water, according to NBC News.

Fields are either flooded or too muddy to work in, so crops left unharvested are deteriorating, resulting in lower-quality product that will bring less at market.

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The 1,700 acres of winter wheat Ben Wible has on his farm in Sherman should have been pulled already, but he has stayed away as the rain continues to soak his fields. Forecasters are predicting more rain and flooding this weekend, Wible told CNBC.

“Every drop of rain we get now is detrimental to us now,” Wible said. (Tweet This)

The wheat on Jay Davis’ farm in North Central Texas has grown so tall it is beginning to fall over, and the grain is starting to sprout. Once wheat sprouts, it cannot be sold for human consumption, so Davis may have to sell what he can salvage as livestock feed. He won’t get as good a price for it, and he will have to compete with other feed crops such as corn. Moreover, there isn’t a lot of demand for livestock feed in his area, so he will have to weigh whether it’s worth the cost of transporting the grain elsewhere.

“We don’t know what the market for this crop is going to be, even if it is harvested,” Davis said.

The delayed wheat harvest could lead to bottlenecks all through that crop’s supply chain-the harvesting crews that go from farm to farm to help clear fields will have to rush, and there could be backups at local grain elevators and flour mills, Davis said. Those businesses aren’t pulling in the revenue they would normally expect at this point of the year either, and may have to do with reduced supply from local farmers this year.

“The key thing here is, even if this crop is harvested, we have disrupted the normal flow of harvest operations from south to north,” he said. “We are crowding the ability of those crews and machinery to move, because we are going to have a large area stretching across Texas into Oklahoma and other states that is going to be harvesting all at the same time. That is going to stretch the ability of the harvest crews to cover that acreage.”

Because the winter and early spring crops are still in the ground, farmers cannot plant their summer crops, so that season is delayed, as well. A lot of people could not plant their corn, Wible said.

Cotton farmers in Texas have planted just under a third of their intended crop for the year, according to the most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture data cited by Reuters. That is far less than the 47 percent they had in the ground at this time last year, and even further below the five-year average of 50 percent, according to Reuters.

And the corn that some have managed to get into the ground is suffering under the water. Too much water can stunt the crop and cause it to turn yellow; both conditions either reduce or eliminate its value, depending on the severity…..More Here

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