Laugh all you want about my earlier post. We all need a laugh. People do cause pollution. Are greenhouse gases a problem? I do not know. But too many people could be. Did man cause this drought. Blame it on Bush if you want to or me if you wish. But it is very, very dry on my farms.
I own three farms with over 700 acres in corn, in drought conditions and without a heck of a lot of irrigation it would not yield 20 bushels to the acre. I do not farm them but do have a share of the yield. The contrast between where it is watered and where it does not reach is stark. Those without water will be hard pressed or ruined.
But I worry more about next year and those which follow than any one year. In my lifetime the population has gone from less than two billion to over seven billion. And in my potential lifetime it will top ten billion. Food production has gone up but not by five times. Population is out of control and that bothers me more than Climate Change. It can not go up forever and the future looks grim.
If farmers are forced to plant every acre to feed more people where will our CPR come from? You may have birds this year but will you next or in ten years? Do you think pheasants or any other game will do better with no CPR, no cover and no edge cover? Game birds live in what to many is surplus land. There will be no surplus land if you have to feed ten billion people.
People need to eat and farmers must make a profit so I do not blame them. I do not get caught up in the debate about Global warming and is it real. Climate changes over time or there never would have been an Ice Age, or a mini Ice Age a few hundred years ago. It gets hotter or dryer over time and then the trend reverses. But never before have we had to feed seven billion or ten in the next 40 years. All types of wildlife will suffer to feed ten billion. Perhaps to the point that hunting wild birds of any type becomes a thing of the past. That is a sad thought.
