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May Snow Cools Corn Belt's Progress

posted on May 3, 2013 at 4:38 PM

May Snow Cools Corn Belt's Progress
This week started with some delayed warm and dry conditions. The weather pattern allowed for corn planting to finally occur. But growers are still well behind the average pace as only 5 percent of the corn crop was in the ground according to USDA’s... Full Story

Flooding Drowns Out Some Areas of Drought

posted on April 25, 2013 at 4:35 PM

Flooding Drowns Out Some Areas of Drought
“The rain on the plain was mainly a pain” for many in rural America this week. Several rivers escaped their banks in Illinois, Missouri and the Dakotas. High water in Spring Bay, Illinois near Peoria flooded homes and other low-lying areas.... Full Story

Rain and Snow Help Reduce Drought

posted on April 19, 2013 at 4:03 PM

Rain and Snow Help Reduce Drought
The calendar says spring, but Mother Nature continues to disagree. Heavy snow fell in the plains --- most recently in Nebraska and Minnesota --- where travel was slowed because of the precipitation. Full Story

Recent Storms Ease Drought In Midwestern States

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. Full Story

Market to Market (March 1, 2013)

posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:08 PM

Market to Market (March 1, 2013)
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... Full Story

Snowstorm Again Blankets Several Regions

posted on March 1, 2013 at 5:08 PM

Snowstorm Again Blankets Several Regions
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,... Full Story

Food Prices To Rise Above Inflation Rate

posted on February 8, 2013 at 5:52 PM

Food Prices To Rise Above Inflation Rate
As snow falls across America, the reduction of drought is slight. This week’s snow cover map from Intellicast shows increasing snowpack in the northern states. But it it’s nowhere near the amount needed as evidenced by the University of... Full Story

Extraordinary snowfall needed to relieve drought

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. Full Story

Extraordinary snowfall needed to relieve drought

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... Full Story

USDA Provides Emergency Funds to Protect Five Western States From Flooding

posted on June 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM

WASHINGTON(USDA) - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will provide $3 million in Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program funds to five western states where record... Full Story

Wild west weather as snow melts, dams filling, floods feared

posted on June 3, 2011 at 3:06 PM

GRAND COULEE DAM, Wash (AP) - The giant concrete dams of the Pacific Northwest are overflowing with water. Full Story

Market to Market (December 11, 2009)

posted on December 11, 2009 at 6:12 PM

Market to Market (December 11, 2009)
Full Program: The Environmental Protection Agency begins the process of regulating greenhouse gases. A massive snowstorm paralyzes the Midwest, stranding travelers and leaving millions of bushels of corn in the field. But, when it get's hot, dedicated volunteers... Full Story

Winter Storm Wallops Farm Country

posted on December 10, 2009 at 3:12 PM

Winter Storm Wallops Farm Country
Although "old man winter" hasn't OFFICIALLY arrived yet, a massive winter storm blew across the U.S this week leaving mountains of snow, blizzard conditions, and subzero wind chills in its wake. Full Story

Ranchers Slog Through Snowy, Chilly Spring

posted on May 1, 2009 at 8:05 PM

CHEYENNE, Wyo (AP) -- Snowy, soggy, chilly weather has taken a severe toll on sheep and cattle across the northern Great Plains this spring. Full Story

Late Freeze Harms Northern California Crops

posted on April 25, 2008 at 8:04 PM

MARYSVILLE, Calif (AP) —Sacramento Valley farmers are calculating the damage from unusually cold spring weather that destroyed some crops in the bud. Full Story
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