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Water Deficits Abound

A farmer stands near the corpses of cows that died in his fields in Santa Fe Province, Argentina, on January 18, 2023.
A farmer stands near the corpses of cows that died in his fields in Santa Fe Province, Argentina, on January 18, 2023. Photo: Gustavo Garello (AP)

“We have been experiencing a water deficit for the last two years and this year we have not even reached 50% of the average for this area,” a farmer outside of Buenos Aires told Reuters in December, mentioning that most of his wheat plants would have to be repurposed for cattle feed rather than fed into the market for human consumption.

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