Things were going better this year, until September, when Cass County was classified as being in severe drought. Around that time, a third of the American Midwest was also in drought.
New Jersey declared a drought watch last week, asking people to voluntarily conserve water. For those at Duffield's Farm in Sewell, the weather has been challenging.
A lot of farmers are struggling, and prices are low, so there's a lot of stress out there right now," he said. According to the federal government's National Integrated Drought Information System ...
Programs that provide drought relief to farmers use the U.S. Drought Monitor to determine eligibility, but some experts say it doesn’t always capture local conditions. On a recent fall day ...