End the Ethanol Mandate
Record-high corn prices should be sending a clear message to policy makers in Washington: Requiring people to put corn-based fuel in their gas tanks is a bad idea. Since 2005, the U.S. government has mandated...
Category: Drought
Water Shut Off for Farmers
This Colorado farmer says it’s like starving to death in a grocery store. Weld County, Colorado farmers lost surface irrigation water from rivers because of drought, but they can’t pump groundwater because of a...
To protect ethanol, Obama seeks to inflate meat prices
Campaigning in Missouri Valley, Iowa, yesterday, President Obama announced yet another government spending program — this time designed to inflate meat prices in Midwest swing states. “Today the Department of Agriculture announced that it...
Drought shrinks mighty Mississippi
Record breaking arid weather causes the Mississippi River to shrink.
Brutal July heat a new U.S. record
(CNN) — The July heat wave that wilted crops, shriveled rivers and fueled wildfires officially went into the books Wednesday as the hottest single month on record for the continental United States. The average temperature...
Global food prices rise in July due to extreme weather
Global food prices sharply rebounded in July due to wild swings in weather conditions, a UN food and agricultural body has said. The rise has fanned fresh fears of a repeat of the 2007-2008...
Drought puts more than half of U.S. counties in disaster zones
(CNN) — More than half of all U.S. counties have been designated disaster zones, the Department of Agriculture reported, blaming excessive heat and a devastating drought that’s spread across the Corn Belt and contributed to...
Grape crops thrive where others fail in record drought
The worst drought in decades now covers two thirds of the United States. And forecasters think the dry conditions will linger well into the fall. Karen Brown is traveling across the nation, investigating the...
Massive global floods and extreme drought could be the new normal
(multimedia) Historic floods in China and Russia, scorching heat waves and drought in the United States may be among the early stages of climate change, scientists say. Meanwhile, many cities remain unprepared for future...
Weather extremes buckle US infrastructure
WASHINGTON — From highways in Texas to nuclear power plants in Illinois, the concrete, steel and sophisticated engineering that undergird the nation’s infrastructure are being taxed to worrisome degrees by heat, drought and vicious storms. On...
