The weather in the grain belt has been unusually wet and cold, unlike anything in memory. Is this a result of interloper manipulation? How serious is the situation? Might it get worse?

This is sinister. It is produced by extraterrestrial modification of weather patterns. That is the true reason for so many weather-related oddities causing droughts, causing excess flooding, hail damage, and large numbers of tornados. The intention is to cause economic damage and to do so through destruction of farmland or various crops during the growth phase. To reduce the harvest has a double liability because it compromises the food supply, potentially, if the losses are severe enough to result in shortages. This accomplishes the political advantage as well of keeping alive the drumbeat of climate change as the number one culprit and threat to humanity, so this serves the agenda of the Extraterrestrial Alliance in furthering their propaganda designed to take money from the people to fight the Sun when it is not causing the problems to begin with.