Drought Damages Crops Across Georgia
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By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO  OMEGA, Ga. - The sky above Randy Scarbor's south Georgia cantaloupe fields was overcast, but the clouds were from massive wildfires to the east. No rain was forecast for the last day in May, a month that set records for dry conditions in Georgia.
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By ELLIOTT MINOR  TIFTON, Ga. - The cotton industry is concerned about the discovery of a herbicide-resistant weed that spreads easily, can grow an inch a day even during droughts and could force farmers to return to older growing methods that were harsher on the environment.
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Illinois and Missouri are among 18 corn- and 12 soybean-producing states reporting record yields this fall, the Agriculture Department said Friday.
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The low snowpack in the Cascade Range is raising the specter of water shortages this summer, but a new study of tree-ring data indicates the Northwest has endured far worse droughts over the past 250 years &#151; and is likely to again.
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Fears mounted on Monday that downpours which have killed dozens in Africa, uprooted hundreds of thousands and devastated crops could continue past the end of the rainy season and hit areas that have so far escaped floods.
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WAYCROSS, Ga.  -- Tropical Storm Barry and its remnants gave a much-needed soaking to thousands of acres of burning swamp and timberland in northern Florida and southeastern Georgia.
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The remnants of Hurricane Frances washed out water lines or sanitation systems in several mountain towns, leaving tens of thousands of people without drinking water early Thursday. Flooding throughout the Appalachian Mountains contributed to two deaths in Ohio.
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Extreme rains, interspersed with droughts, could spell disaster for the country's agriculture-based economy, according to research spanning five decades of data.
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Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue today declared the northern region of Georgia in a state of emergency as its water resources dwindled to dangerously low level. He also sent a letter to President Bush, asking him to declare north Georgia a major disaster area.
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Hurricane Frances destroyed more of the  citrus crop in some places in Florida than Hurricane Charley  did three weeks ago, the state's agriculture commissioner said  on Tuesday.
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With drought conditions intensifying across the Southeast, efforts to conserve water are popping up everywhere Â even at the aquarium.
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BATON ROUGE, La. - Agriculture officials are testing plant samples from three Louisiana parishes and one Mississippi county for the fungus soybean rust, which damages crop production and forces farmers to use costly fungicide treatments.
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Ideal fall weather in the Midwest  boosted the U.S. corn crop to a record 11.613 billion bushels  and soybeans to a record 3.11 billion bushels while cotton will  hit a record 21.545 million bales despite hurricane damage in  the Southeast, the government forecast on Tuesday.
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By NATE DEGRAFF  Lawns are browning. Farm fields are drying out. This month is one of the driest Mays on record.  But Guilford County is not in serious drought. Yet.
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Showers and thunderstorms brought much-needed rain to parts of the Southeast on Monday. The lower Mississippi Valley, in particular, got strong to severe storms.
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The state appeared to break out of its nearly two-week heat wave Friday, but not before it caused as many as 141 deaths and did untold damage to crops.
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By Andrew Gumbel  America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.