# Shortages again this fall, are you hearing this?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
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**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortages-again-this-fall-are-you-hearing-this/918054 "2020-08-14T05:15:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortages-again-this-fall-are-you-hearing-this/918054/18 "2020-08-16T05:17:29Z")

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> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> I’m not worried about shortages of wheat or potatoes

We might need to worry about some shortages.

Our OP with her flooded-out TP stash, ain’t seen nothing.

The recent derecho in Iowa destroyed 10 million acres (43%) of Iowa’s corn and soybean crop.

> **[Midwest derecho devastates Iowa corn crop. Satellite imagery shows damage.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/08/12/iowa-derecho-corn-damage/)**
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> More than 10 million acres, or 43 percent, of the state’s corn crops were affected.

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