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Posts Tagged ‘Drought’

Kansas and Missouri Brace for Another Year of Drought 

By | May 3, 2024 | 0
Two hoop barns covered in white tarp are filled with a small amount of round hay bales.

Missouri and Kansas remain in drought conditions. Meteorologists and water experts are working to figure out what producers should expect this growing season.  

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Droughts, Climate Change, Drive US Beef Herd to Historic Low

By | March 18, 2024 | 0
An Oklahoma rancher pouring out sack feed to his Angus and Charolais mix cattle in a pasture of dead grass caused by drought.

Persistent drought, complicated by climate change, have helped drive the nation’s inventory of beef cattle to a 61–year low.

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Southeast Kansas Town is Almost Out of Water, and Signs of Crisis are Everywhere

By | October 30, 2023 | 0
Water levels in the Little Caney River are so low that the river isn’t flowing over the dam, leaving the stream dry.

The stubborn drought has brought Caney, a southeast Kansas town of less than 2,000 people, within weeks of reaching the end of its water supply.

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Drought Sapping Fisheries and Marshes in Missouri and Kansas

By | August 3, 2023 | 0
A dry and parched Cheyenne Bottoms wetlands area in central Kansas.

The persistent drought in Missouri and Kansas is beginning to sap the water, and the life, out of fisheries and marshes in the region.

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Missouri Cattle Producers Slash Herds Amid Worsening Drought

By | July 20, 2023 | 0
young cows with tags on their ears stand in the mud of a hoop barn.

The worsening drought in Missouri is forcing livestock producers to sell off their cattle herds, decisions that will be felt at the supermarket cash register.

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