Weather - General
Roughly half of the country is experiencing dry conditions, yet analysts think the same number of acres will be planted to water-intensive alfalfa this spring.
Many agricultural producers in East Texas are feeling caught between a rock and a ‘hot’ place.
Untimely heat expanded across the Midwest and Northeast, halting pasture growth and stressing reproductive corn and soybeans.
July brought with it warmer than normal temperatures and limited rainfall to much of the U.S.
See how the drought has increased and intensified during the last six weeks.
otato processors are rushing to buy supplies and ship them across North America in order to keep French fries on the menu after cold, wet weather damaged crops in key producers in the U.S. and Canada.
While spring floods left many rice farmers with fewer acres of rice than they originally planned, they’re hopeful a rising market can offset at least some of the lost acreage.
UPDATED Friday AM: Hurricane Harvey was upgraded to a Category 2 hurricane this morning. The National Weather Service expects the area of impact to be “uninhabitable for weeks or months.”
A severe drought that is threatening Asia’s top rice producers and drying up the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia has exerted only limited impact on prices, thanks to last year’s huge rice surplus, according to officials.