The relentless, weather-gone-crazy type of heat that has blistered the United States and other parts of the world in recent years is so rare that it can’t be anything but man-made global warming, says a new statistical analysis from a …
A Pierre, S.D., golf course that was extensively damaged by Missouri River flooding last year may not be able to open this year either. Pierre parks director Tom Farnsworth says the recovery of the Hillsview golf course is being set …
Small, nonfarm business in Cibola County and seven neighboring New Mexico counties that have been affected by drought now can apply for low-interest federal disaster loans. The deadline to apply for up to $2 million in loans from the U.S. …
Rain will fall early this week in the northern U.S. Midwest, with from 1 to 2 inches expected across a broad parched swath of corn and soybean land roughly north of Interstate 80, an agricultural meteorologist predicted Monday. “It’s good …
The drought ravaging America’s prime farmland is having an unexpected consequence that could shape the future of agricultural finance: in some cases, farmers who have amped up their insurance coverage may be giving up on their crops early rather than …
Midday weather updates on Wednesday indicate more hot, dry weather for the U.S. Midwest, where corn and soybean crops are rapidly deteriorating amid the harshest drought in more than half a century. “It’s a little wetter for next week in …
Climate indicators for an El Niño event in the western Pacific have eased slightly in the past fortnight, but meteorologists still expect the weather pattern which can bring drought to the Asia-Pacific and damage crops to form late in 2012. …
Gov. Mike Beebe is requesting a statewide disaster declaration because of the drought plaguing Arkansas. Beebe’s office said Tuesday that he asked U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for a disaster designation for all of the state’s 75 counties. If issued, …
Hundreds of families are running low on water in parts of northern Arkansas’ Newton County as maintenance problems and drought strain rural water associations. In addition to the hot, dry, weather, a pump broke last at a well last month, …
The withering U.S. corn crop is gaining some respite from a record heat wave this week but new weather forecasts offered scant signs of the rainfall it urgently needs to avoid the worst drought damage in nearly a quarter century. …