Global Corn Famine of 2028

The Global Corn Famine of 2028 is a short lived famine of corn and corn related products throughout the summer of 2028, causing a minor economic downtown because of the dependency on corn.

Causes
The corn famine was a result of the brutally cold winter of  2027-2028. Snowfall was reported in major corn producing states such as Iowa as late as early June. Major snowstorms and blizzards started as early as late September in 2027. Many people in the Midwestern United States compared that winter to "The Long Winter" as seen in one of the Laura Ingels Wilder books. This has decreased the growing seasons in which corn and other crops were to grow. As the long and brutal winter has ended, temperatures had suddenly rose  and a major drought throughout the corn belt of the United States took place. Production of corn and corn related products had a major slump. Prices of foods that are based on animals that consume corn such as pork had prices skyrocketed because of the low supply of corn that feed the livestock, causing an economic downtown. The corn famine has created layoffs in many corn producing mills and factories. This economic effect had a similar effect to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 with the closing of various meat plants in the United States because of the spread of the virus. Corn was not affected as much by the Covid-19 pandemic as the other commodities. By the time of the corn famine, the Covid-19 pandemic has become a short term bad memory in history but many precautions were still in effect during the time of the corn famine just in case of of another disease outbreak. Legislation that was passed after the Covid-19 pandemic had increased regulations on global food trade to prevent the effects of major pandemics such as Covid-19 from happening again. With the regulations in place, exporting corn to other countries outside of the United States have become more expensive and more difficult, making the economic impact of the corn famine worse.

The corn famine has raised awareness of the over-consumption of corn in foods, especially with corn syrup and using corn for other sources, such as Ethanol. Many local politicians had blamed the corn famine because of the over-consumption of corn and climate change causing changes in temperature, making corn and other corn related products difficult to make. Other politicians have blamed the famine on the trade regulations that took effect a few years after the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020.