Massive crop losses' feared from US drought--Monitor
Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:49am EDT
* Drought persists, intensifies in U.S. South
* High winds, heat, drive "massive crop losses"
By Carey Gillam
KANSAS CITY,, April 28 (Reuters) - A devastating drought intensified
across Texas over the last week, with high winds and heat causing "massive
crop losses," with little relief seen any time soon, weather experts said
Thursday.
The latest report from a consortium of national climate experts, dubbed
the Drought Monitor, said drought worsened along the Texas border with
Oklahoma, as well as in western, central and southern Texas.
Ranchers were struggling to feed and water cattle, and wheat farmers
were left to watch their crops shrivel into the dusty soil....
