posted on April 26, 2013 at 6:24 PM
Full Program: The governor of a leading farm state negotiates agricultural trade with China. Heavy rains bring much-needed moisture to the Grain Belt and push rivers to flood stage. And with spring planting on hold, an expert suggests changes to nitrogen...
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posted on March 15, 2013 at 2:32 PM
Climatologists caution that the moisture doesn't signal the end of the stubborn drought that still has a hold on more than half the continental U.S.
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posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:08 PM
Full Program: Partisan bickering ends in gridlock, paving the way for $85 billion in mandatory spending cuts. A government study reveals fast food accounts for a significant portion of America’s diet. Another massive snowstorm brings much-needed moisture to the...
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posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:08 PM
A late-winter storm socked portions of the Plains, Corn Belt and Great Lakes again this week, delivering much-needed moisture to an area still locked in the worst drought in half-a-century.
Over the weekend snow blanketed Denver, Colorado,...
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posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:35 PM
Iowa's apple growers fear what another year of drought will do to their businesses. Many growers also were clobbered last year by a late freeze.
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posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:13 AM
The Missouri River has received a special blessing from an Iowa church that hopes the ceremony will make the river holy and reduce flooding and drought.
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posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:07 AM
A national report says Nebraska was one of two states that experienced its hottest and driest year on record in 2012.
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posted on January 4, 2013 at 2:19 PM
Federal officials say they're confident that they'll be able to keep a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi River open to barge traffic and avoid a shipping shutdown that the industry fears is imminent.
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posted on January 4, 2013 at 2:10 PM
The storms that recently covered parts of the U.S. with snow won't be enough to ease the nation's drought. In fact, climatologists say, it would take historic snowfalls - an absurd amount, really - to undo the damage inflicted by one of the driest...
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posted on February 3, 2012 at 5:13 PM
The second strongest La Nina, now entering its third calendar year of existence, continues its grip on the western Corn Belt.
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