Ottumwa Courier has the story:
Unseasonably cold weather struck across the Great Plains this week, bringing snow and freezing temperatures to major wheat-producing regions. Although the extent of the damage is uncertain, some analysts expect significant yield loss in the wheat crop that is growing in the hard-hit states Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado.
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In the Midwest, cold temperatures and snowfall are delaying corn planting further, with areas of Iowa (America’s No. 1 corn-producing state) under as much as 2 feet of snow.
The gravest danger from the next grand minimum will be the loss of food production. This is a one time event, but worry it could be come an multi-year event, then the real problem will become survival for millions.
The Next Grand Minimum 
The big problem is changing from one seed stock to another (takes about 4 years) and the USDA brainwashing of farmers, telling them it is going to get warmer. Mono-genetic GMO seed and huge monoculture farms are also a threat when the weather becomes unpredictable.
Of course the fact Dan Amstutz, grain trader, VP of cargill and later Goldman-Sachs, removed US grain storage practices in 1996 to the bottom line for Cargill, ADM, Monsanto and the financial traders while it starves the little guy doesn’t help. But whats not to like?
As George Bernard Shaw said we want to get rid of the ‘useless eaters’ anyway.
A FEW REFERENCES:
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/21/opinion/la-oe-kaufman-food-hunger-drought-20120921
Click to access grain_reserves_for_food_aid.pdf
http://naega.org/?page_id=301
http://terrancethisisstupidstuff.blogspot.com/2008/04/biofuel-starvation-wasnt-unforeseen.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/19/AR2010101907216.html
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/27/how_goldman_sachs_created_the_food_crisis?page=0,1
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161869/Top-doctors-chilling-claim-The-NHS-kills-130-000-elderly-patients-year.html?ICO=most_read_
http://vineoflife.net/2012/11/29/now-sick-babies-go-on-death-pathway-doctors-haunting-testimony-reveals-how-children-are-put-on-end-of-life-plan/
Gail,
Thanks for the comment and the reference links.