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USDA Declares Winter Wheat Belt Drought Disaster Area
2013-01-11 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) declared 597 counties across 14 states natural disaster areas as a result of the ongoing drought that threatens the winter wheat crop. These are the first drought-related natural disaster declarations of the year, and mark the second year in a row that such measures were necessary due to the drought event, which is the worst such event since the 1950s. Overall drought impacts across the continental U.S. improved slightly this week, due to mild...
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LCRA moves to restrict water to rice farmers in Texas Rice Belt
2013-01-10 13:06:39| Waste Management - Topix.net
The LCRA Board voted unanimously Tuesday to make the formal request to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for emergency powers to limit water releases for rice irrigation.
USDA declares drought disaster in much of Wheat Belt
2013-01-10 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The government declared much of the central and southern Wheat Belt a natural disaster area on Wednesday due to persistent drought that imperils this year's winter wheat harvest. In its first disaster declaration of the new year, the Agriculture Department made growers in large portions of four major wheat-growing states - Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas - eligible for low-interest emergency loans. The four states grew one-third of the U.S. wheat crop last year. Kansas was the No. 1 state...
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