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Harvest Helps Refill Bins from 12 Drought
2013-10-11 17:27:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune These warm, sunny days have spurred farmers to kick harvest into high gear, with some pleasantly surprising results, according to a report in today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune from the Associated Press. Dairy farmer Ben Steffen, who also grows corn, soybeans and wheat on 1,900 acres near the southeastern Nebraska town of Humboldt, said his first corn field brought in 168 bushels an acre, above the average of 140. read more
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UPDATE 3-Cargill profits slump, grain sector hit by 2012 drought
2013-10-10 02:06:05| Agriculture - Topix.net
U.S. agribusiness company Cargill Inc on Wednesday reported a 41 percent drop in quarterly profits as the lingering effects of the 2012 severe drought in the United States reduced grain-handling opportunities.
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Drought is killing the worlds forests
2013-10-07 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
University World News: Every forested continent on Earth has suffered widespread droughts over the past 30 years that have killed tens of thousands of trees. Their scale, duration and almost coordinated nature across different continents is causing extreme alarm in ecological circles. Derek Eamus, a lecturer at the University of Technology in Sydney, says Australia faced a seven-year eastern seaboard drought in the first decade of the 21st century while most of Western Europe was in drought in 2003. There the human...
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Epic Flooding Deals Colorado Drought Crippling Blow
2013-09-20 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: All it took was a 1,000-year flood to knock out -- or at least significantly dampen -- the drought that has been ravaging much of Colorado for at least a year and half. The U.S. Drought Monitor, released Thursday, shows that nearly all of north-central Colorado is drought free, and the drought is greatly reduced in much of the rest of the state: Many parts of the Colorado Front Range received most of their normal annual rainfall in just a couple of days last week, with up to 18 inches of rain...
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Amid drought, a water fight spills into legal territory
2013-09-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: As Texas' rivers run dry and lakes fall to record low levels, part of the fight over water supplies is moving underground. Neighbors who pump water from the same formations beneath their land have long argued over that water. But the stakes are rising as cities and industries see groundwater as a solution to the demands of explosive population growth. But Texas law governing groundwater is murky, and a recent state appeals court decision signals that only years of expensive legal battles will...
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