Anecdotal and I'd love to be wrong about this, buuuut I'm in the rural midwest rn and all of the wheat fields in like a 75 mile radius from me look like they're absolutely fucked.
It's basically all turned gold already which is super early for it, especially because it's still short as fuck, like maybe a foot tall — it's usually still green until it's like 4 feet tall. The people who've lived here for a long time have been talking about how abnormal it is. I'm not a wheat scientist and haven't really gotten into with anyone who knows what they're actually talking about so I don't totally know what it means, but I know it doesn't mean anything good
Prob a good idea to stock up on food if you've got the means
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Barely related, but your comment reminded me of this. I used to drive past a rendering plant a few times a year. Without question the worst thing I’ve ever smelled. I guess the smell was raw animal fat being melted down to tallow on an industrial scale. I remember it would fill the car. Cloying. Like the air had become too thin to breathe properly, but at the same time thick and heavy with this awful stench. Like a concentrated death-smell.
I’ve also driven past feedlots, which smell awful, but for me they lack the nightmare quality of the rendering plant smell.