Sentences with phrase «breadbasket states»
Scorching temperatures and scarce rainfall has left large swathes of the United States in drought, with the «breadbasket states», such as Iowa and Indiana, among the worst affected.
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The study, published in Nature Climate Change, focused on the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, an emerging global breadbasket that as of 2013 supplied 10 percent of the world's soybeans.
Many recent events - discoveries from sediment cores in New York, drought in Australia and the western United States, data from increasingly sophisticated computer models - lead to a conclusion that the weather driving many of the globe's great breadbaskets will become hotter, drier and more unpredictable.
«We didn't see the decline in the proportion of monarchs we expected in the breadbasket of the U.S. — the Midwestern states — due to the loss of milkweed, but that could be because monarch numbers dropped across North America,» said Flockhart.
Our bad habits exacerbated famines and followed us to the United States, where we turned some of the richest soil in the world into the Dust Bowl, and decimated the breadbasket of our country in just shy of 150 years.
Just when it seemed that things could not get much worse, the United States, the world's breadbasket, is planning to double the share of its grain harvest going to fuel ethanol — from 16 percent of the 2006 crop to 30 percent or so of the 2008 crop.
The Great Plains of the United States, late twenty - first century: breadbasket or dust bowl?