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Originally Posted by lorax
SBL, it was me. In fact, since the drought is continuing, we're still on electricity rationing across the country. (This may sound like a non-sequitur, but Ecuador is 100% hydroelectric) This is going to end in tears - the highland farmers were unable to get the potato, corn, barley, quinoa, and "cool weather" vegetable crops in, and the coastal farmers lost the year's second cycle of rice. About the only thing doing well cropwise this year is Amazon bananas and fruits. The price of staple foods is already going up.
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Wow! 100% hydroelectric! I am guessing that this is typical of El Nino pattern--is it? That is bad news about the farmers--it is tough enough when they get a crop, but to not even get to plant is really a disaster for them.
I was just up in north MS and the excess rain there rotted soybeans and cotton on the stalk--many fields are left totally unharvested. However, rice and corn did OK there.