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Sweet corn season is a sure sign of summer, but farmers say this springâs cooler temperatures and lack of rain have delayed the cropâs growth.
âThe nighttime temperatures in May were very cold,â said John Cromwell, a Virginia Beach sweet corn grower and member of the Virginia Beach Farm Bureauâs board of directors. âWe had many nights in the mid- and low 50s. For us down here on the coast, thatâs really cold.â
Cromwell said he had to start irrigating in May up until Memorial Day weekend because of the dry weather. Despite this, he remains upbeat as he readies for the summer sweet corn season, which runs from now through early September.
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According to ReFED, a nonprofit focused on curbing food waste, roughly 35 percent of food in the U.S. went unsold or uneaten in 2019. Most of this waste ends up being sent to landfill current EPA estimates state that food and yard waste compose roughly 30 percent of the municipal solid waste stream sent to landfill every year.
Because this waste is left to decompose, it gives off a notable greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint equivalent to 4 percent of total GHG emissions in the U.S. (8 percent of GHG emissions when measured globally). These emissions have been directly linked to global warming.