Mid Atlantic farmland is being lost due to climate change
By snowy
@snowy22315 (207868)
United States
May 21, 2026 11:16am CST
Climate change is reeking havoc on agriculture. In the mid Atlantic 25,000 acres of farmland has been lost to encroaching salt water. It turns former productive farmland into ghost forests, and marshland. Small levees have been tried to keep out the approaching salt water, but it has not been successful. Maybe larger levees would help, but of course they would be expensive, and storms probably could still breach them. Climate change has real consequences. Fewer farm products available of course means higher prices.
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@snowy22315 (207868)
• United States
23h
It is not "In the Atlantic." The regions that are south of New England and New York to North Carolina are Mid Atlantic states. Technically Virginia is one, but Virginia has always historically been considered the South. I consider it kind of an insult really.
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@rebelann (117106)
• El Paso, Texas
22h
Ohhh, I had no idea @snowy22315
Well, Virginia originally was part of the south then when the civil war started W Virginia was created so Virginia became a part of the north.
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@snowy22315 (207868)
• United States
21h
@rebelann No, yes that happened but WVA and VA are separate states. They do they their own thing. The capital of the confederacy was in Richmond,, VA proper has never been part of the North, although the areas around DC other than some of the names are like the North ,with the urbanization nobody has an accent etc.
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@ptrikha_2 (49714)
• India
21h
Elevated temperatures in Summers, below par in winters, disrupted rains during monsoon and so much more.
Plus with urban island effects, deforestation and other things have made the weather effect even bigger and detrimental.
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@snowy22315 (207868)
• United States
8h
It does, and they will only worsen I fear.
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@LooeyVille (71)
• United States
22h
But 20 years ago the U.S. government was paying subsidies to farmers to NOT grow crops. It's crazy.
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@snowy22315 (207868)
• United States
14h
Maybe huge levees will have to be built. They did that in New Orleans.
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@LindaOHio (221410)
• United States
6h
Maybe now people will realize that climate change is a real thing. Cities like New Orleans and Key West will be in jeopardy.
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@Ineeddentures (32346)
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15h
I thought I replied to this
Montrose golf course, 2 miles from my birthplace, second oldest golf course in will have a new Eastern edge sea hazard stretching from the 2nd hole until the 11th.
The second home has lost 30 yards from it's width in recent years
The dunes protecting it have been decimated
Not good
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