2011 Texas Drought

Due to the decline of the water levels in Lake mead and Colorado River, this has a huge impact on the the southwest of Arizona. This hugely impacts the agricultural industries and ranchings because they face drought, scouring heat and water shortages which decreases their farms yields and productivity. Because Arizona farmers are dependent on irrigation for vegetation, with a water crisis they would have feed shortages which would cause them to sell their farms with weaker disaster relief support.

"It 's like if you woke up one morning and lost 40 percent of the equity in your house," Dan Macon, a Northern California sheep rancher, says. California has been in a severe drought for three years. Macon and other farmers in the state are being forced to sell their stock and find alternative work to pay the bills on top of taking care of their once prosperous farms. Not only is the drought affecting the way these farmers and their families live, but it’ll eventually start affecting our food system as long as the conditions persist. It’s time for the whole world to start making sacrifices in these hard times or there will be difficult times ahead.

Meanwhile, if water to farming is cut, buyers go elsewhere to get their produce. Of course other places grow the same produce and those other places have the space to expand and they get plenty of water while being taxed less. California farms may never get those buyers back after the drought ends. Almonds are California’s fifth most profitable export. Cut their water and you cut billions from the government budgets. Which results in less funding of California programs. Nobody starves from lack of wine, artichokes, walnuts, kiwis, plums, celery, garlic, cauliflower, spinach, or carrots. We will live. Besides, the video assumes that all those can’t be grown elsewhere. They already are growing elsewhere. The California drought does not affect the country negatively. It affects California negatively, If California’s farming is cut, buyers flock to other farms across the country. These other farms expand, hire new workers, buy new machinery, etc. Nobody starves, everyone outside of California benefits. But inside of California, you lose thousands of jobs in the farming, machinery, distribution channels to other states. Not to mention the higher costs of

4. Inventory Resources and Identify Groups at Risk- It is crucial to take an inventory of natural, biological, and human resources. For obvious reasons water is the most valuable natural resource in this situation; its location, accessibility, and quality. The biological resources refer to the quality and quantity of grasslands or rangelands, forests, wildlife, and so forth. Human resources are the labor needed to develop water resources and haul water, process citizen complaints, provide technical assistance, and direct citizens to available services. It is important to define the exposure of various parts of the region to drought hazard to determine which groups are at risk (Wilhite, Hayes, & Knutson, 2005).

Droughts The articles, “Decade of Drought” by Anne Capeci and “ Drought Report” by Jennifer Johnson both discuss about droughts. “Decade of Drought” by Anne Capeci is more information than “Drought Report” by Jennifer Johnson because it depicts the negatives effects of a drought. To begin, “Decade of Drought” by Anne Capeci explains how it effects the world. For example, “Meanwhile, hot, dry conditions increased the threat of destructive wildfires”(93).This shows a wildfires will happen if it hot and dry conditions and that will make dire wildfire. Capeci also reports “The price of olive oil rose sharply in 2014”(94).This shows that the olive price went more up and people will pay more than they were.

Droughts have devastating effects all around. Most profoundly on the economy of the affected area; disrupting any balance in the supply and demand for food commodities, while pushing the cost of production up. This will translate to the market being largely imbalanced and will impact on the supply chain. Wisconsin is a large farming state, during the 2012 drought; farming practices were largely hampered causing a decline in the production of food. Consequently, farmers faced huge losses since their investment was not marched by the output. Considering this fact, the economy of Wisconsin's farming majority saw them running on a deficit. Law of reciprocity shows that if a component in the supply chain faces a deficit then other components will be forced to compensate for the loss and so the deficit will merely change hands.

No one could have foresaw a drought occurring and even the most experienced farmers might have thought if a drought were to hit it would not last long. Worster states, “Over the nation as a whole, the 1930s drought was in the words of a Weather Bureau scientist, “the worst in the climatological history

I would like to make an assessment based on The Largest Drought in American History: Funding for Science is Drying Up article. The article tried to arouse the public’s attentions on the current situation that government funds for science research is shrinking. As a result of this shrinkage of funding, the science area is facing multiple difficulties. As was mentioned by authors LaBeaud AD and McKeating H as an example , the funding for neglected tropical diseases and other areas of areas of science has failed to keep up with the inflation rates for years, and this relative shrinkage of financial input to the raising costs has delayed progresses of researches. Other consequences such as lacking of budget to support new scientists, lacking of training of the scientists in all level, and the increased career uncertainties of being scientists are also

Over thousands of years water has been a very valuable element in our everyday lives. Now we are being faced with a shortage of water affecting not only us, but future generations as well. The drought has become an extreme issue that has affected the United States. For example, in Texas the dry spell has had an impact in families, politics and law, religion, health care, and mass media.

Organic ranchers and dairy farmers in California also feel the effects of the drought. They rely on green pasture to feed their animals a healthy diet. Due to the lack of rain, the pasture are drying up and the ranchers have to purchase supplemental organic hay from other states. In an attempt to fund the purchasing of this out of state hay, the organic farmers are selling herds to businesses for hamburger meat and the small

Texas has received record amounts of rainfall, causing serious flooding all throughout the state of Texas. According to an article published on June 3rd, Houston is looking at an economic impact of roughly 550 million dollars. This interests me greatly because I live in Texas, and seeing prices going up, especially on local produces, is something that will directly impact me. Because of the record rain falls, local farmers are especially in a world of hurt as their crops were destroyed by the rain. For local farmers markets, and local grocery stores that support local farmers, I think you'll start to see a raise in prices as the farmers will be having to make up their margins somewhere. Also, I think you'll start to see Texas lean on other

California is going on a four-year drought, having many devastating implications that are being felt by everyone in the state. The population hit the hardest has been the farmers of California. California, being economically driven by its agricultural production, is losing hundreds of thousands of jobs every year due to the lack of water. Farmers’ use 80% of water the state produces, directly influencing their production (Mieszkowski, 2014). The country heavily relies on California for much of its produce such as tomatoes, nuts, avocados, strawberries, broccoli, grapes and various others (Cooley et al. 2015). In 2014, harvested acreage was 6.9 million acres, the lowest it has been for the past 15 years. Farmers are now being forced to use significantly less land then before, but also ditch old irrigation techniques and implement new techniques to better conserve water; maximizing production as much as possible in order to combat the drought.

“California’s water future is increasingly uncertain,” says Heather Cooley, in her article California Needs Better Water Management and Pricing Policies (Source A). Agriculture uses 80 percent of California’s constrained water supply and proves to be the primary source of California’s drought. There has been no permanent and largely successful conservation effort to save water. However, with a reformed water management and conservation system, California’s largest industry, agriculture, can thrive while saving water at the same time.

The present drought is alarming to residents in California especially those in the agriculture sphere of the world’s seventh largest economy. At the current state, the water system has been overwhelmed throughout the state by the change in climate, increased industrial agriculture and water-rich consumption that has had nearly no restrictions until recently.

Drought is another factor of climate change that causes severe damages to agriculture and livestock. The effects of drought on agricultural production and livestock holding can be a detrimental issue and result in quality dissatisfaction of products. The agricultural industry can be affected by drought both economically and environmentally. The economical effects of drought on crops and animals can lead to the loss of money and time. When droughts occur farmers lose money because they will have to spend more money earned from their