{"id":42677,"date":"2025-07-27T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42677"},"modified":"2025-07-27T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:33:18","slug":"troubling-very-troubling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/07\/27\/troubling-very-troubling\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubling. Very Troubling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/7\/25\/2335225\/-No-Tassels-No-Ears-A-Sterile-Summer-In-Northern-Ohio?pm_campaign=trending&amp;pm_source=sidebar&amp;pm_medium=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From<\/a> AuntieB, &#8220;<em>No Tassels, No Ears. A Sterile Summer In Northern Ohio<\/em>,&#8221; on <em><strong>Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then I started to notice the silence. Usually corn fields hum with life. Birds, crickets, all sorts of insects create a quiet hum all day and all night. I couldn&#8217;t hear it.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the fields also looked different. They were planted just before that wild swing of rain followed by heat. That brutal one-two punch hit right as the seeds were waking up. Now the corn has grown tall, but it\u2019s sterile. No tassels. No ears. No harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers here are calling it \u201ctight tassel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They say it might affect a third to half of the local crop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Up here in Minnesota I know my strawberries didn&#8217;t produce, the raspberries and blueberries produced minimally. Bumblebees are way down, as is the local morning bird flock, which used to be deafening at 5 in the morning, and now we barely hear it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AuntieB, &#8220;No Tassels, No Ears. A Sterile Summer In Northern Ohio,&#8221; on Daily Kos: Then I started to notice the silence. Usually corn fields hum with life. Birds, crickets, all sorts of insects create a quiet hum all day and all night. I couldn&#8217;t hear it. Some of the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/07\/27\/troubling-very-troubling\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42678,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42677\/revisions\/42678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}