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Unusual snows in South Carolina and Georgia last winter. A particularly late frost in California this March. The worst flood in the Mississippi basin since 1937. Abroad, the worst drought in India in 20 years. A landscape of dehydrated livestock carcasses dotting the dry beds of rivers in Africa. An absence of monsoons that ruined the rice crop in Southeast Asia...
...addition, surprise blizzards this spring cut a multimillion-dollar chunk out of livestock herds in the Rockies and Midwest. Iowa alone suffered a loss of 100,000 cattle and 44,000 hogs, worth $30 million. Snowfall and tornadoes cut peach crops in Georgia and South Carolina by 50% or more...
...Starving. The picture is bleaker in the Indian and African drought areas, where peasants are absorbing the blow almost full force. Soaring prices do them little good because they have no crops or livestock to sell...
...months, across much of the nation's farm belt, crops and livestock have been savaged by freezing weather, ice storms and incessant rain. Record floods turned vast stretches of rich loam into great bogs of mud, delaying or barring altogether the planting of spring crops. The weather has at last turned bright, and farmers are racing to make up for lost time. But opinions now differ as to whether enough corn and other crops will be produced this year to boost supplies and hold down soaring food prices...
...director of agriculture, the rail shortage will be translated into another assault on housewives' food budgets: "We've got a surplus of [old-crop] grain on the farm, but a shortage in the market. This drives up grain prices, which has a direct bearing on livestock feed-lot operators and eventually on consumers." Other commodities are being similarly afflicted; for instance, skyrocketing lumber prices have been blamed partly on a heavy demand for railroad flatcars to haul wood from mill to housing sites...