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In Midwest, Drought Abruptly Gives Way to Flood
2013-04-26 04:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The nations midsection, which was for months parched by severe drought, suddenly finds itself contending with the opposite: severe flooding that has forced evacuations, slowed commercial barge traffic down the Mississippi River and left farmers with submerged fields during a crucial planting time. The flooding, driven in part by rainfall of as much as eight inches in some places last week, has affected a remarkably wide stretch in states along swollen rivers in the Midwest. The deaths of at least...
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April Snowstorms Bring May Drought Relief
2013-04-26 04:39:00| Beef
Its way too early to say any long-term trends are firmly entrenched. I may look back at this week as merely an anomaly, but it sure has been fun to wake up with snow on the ground, boxed-beef prices rising, cattle prices moving higher, and corn prices moving lower. My View From The Country read more
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New Mexico grapples with tough choices as drought persists
2013-04-25 14:38:17| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: In southern New Mexico, the mighty Rio Grande has gone dry - reduced to a sandy wash winding from this chile farming community to the nation's leading pecan-producing county. Only puddles remain, leaving gangs of carp to huddle together in a desperate effort to avoid the fate of thousands of freshwater clams, their shells empty and broken on the river bottom. Across the state's eastern plains, wells stand empty and ranchers are selling their cattle. In the north, urbanites face watering restrictions...
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DuPont profit doubles as drought boosts farm sales
2013-04-23 15:07:35| Chemicals - Topix.net
Chemicals maker DuPont's quarterly profit more than doubled as the worst dry spell in decades encouraged U.S. farmers to buy its drought-hardy seeds and crop-protection products to boost yields.
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Mexico Faces Severe Drought Again
2013-04-22 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - With Mexico facing severe drought conditions again this year, the federal government has announced stringent conservation measures to preserve already tight water supplies, particularly in a large area just south of the border with the US, writes Carlos Navarro of SourceMex.
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