New Mexico is facing a potentially devastating wildfire season this year after experiencing record-setting fires over the past two years. This season is shaping up to be one of the worst as a decade of drought drains moisture from forest …
Cool, wet late winter weather across most of the U.S. Corn Belt has raised hopes that the world’s largest food exporter will rebound from last year’s historic drought but experts warn that many crop and pasture areas west of the …
Farmers will be paid a record $16 billion in crop insurance claims for 2012 because of the widespread drought, a staggering amount that has critics calling for changes to what they say is an inefficient taxpayer subsidy the government cannot …
Indiana crop insurance payouts for losses during last year’s drought have reached a record $1 billion. Purdue University said Tuesday that Indiana farmers have received the payouts for 2012 corn, soybean and wheat losses. That’s nearly twice as much as …
The drought that plagued the Midwest last summer sparked enough grass fires in South Dakota to make 2012 the busiest year the Yankton Fire Department has seen in more than a decade. The total number of calls for the year …
The unrelenting drought gripping key farming states in the U.S. Plains shows no signs of abating, and it will take a deluge of snow or rain to restore critical moisture to farmland before spring planting of new crops, a climate …
In the gently rolling hills of Oklahoma ranch country is a place that has seen more than its share of destructive weather – tornadoes, ice storms and floods, year after year, for half of the last decade. In fact, Caddo …
With a mild winter, relatively warmer weather in general, and drought conditions expected to continue in 2013, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) is urging home and business owners to take action now to effectively reduce their …
Dry weather should continue through at least the end of January in the drought-stricken U.S. Plains and a blast of Arctic cold air in the Midwest early next week poses a threat to unprotected livestock and possibly some wheat, an …
The United States set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit (13 Celsius), the government announced …