USA - If that headline sounds really bad to you, that is because the situation that we are facing is really bad. Over the past few months, I have written article after article about the unprecedented crisis that US farmers are facing this year. In those articles, I have always said that “millions” of acres of farmland did not get planted this year, because I knew that we did not have a final number yet. Well, now we do, and it is extremely troubling. Of course there are some people out there that do not even believe that we are facing a crisis, and a few have even accused me of overstating the severity of the problems that US farmers are currently dealing with. Sadly, things are not as bad as I thought – the truth is that they are even worse. According to the US Department of Agriculture, crops were not planted on 19.4 million acres of US farmland this year.