This Day In History, July 27th, 2021 - "Why Can’t They Eat The Weeds?"

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English - July 27, 2021 13:00 - 1 minute - 754 KB
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It was just 90 years ago today, July 27, 1931, when farmers in America awoke to a plague of biblical proportions. Initially starting on the 26th of July, swarms of locusts descended on crops in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota, devastating a crop that was already struggling through hot temperatures and a drought. In fact, locust, unlike most decent animals, love the dry conditions, their larva thrive in dry heat, and the 1930’s in America were pretty dry. Mother Nature likes to add insult to injury, and the 1931 crop yield was very poor. For some reason, grasshoppers like to...

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