U.S. spring crop season jeopardized as drought persists [1]
Reuters - 1/31/13, Carey Gillam
The last of the 2012 drought-stricken corn is seen at Mayne's Tree Farm in Buckeystown, Maryland October 27, 2012.
Credit: Reuters/Gary Cameron
(Reuters) - The unrelenting drought gripping key farming [2] states in the U.S. Plains shows no signs of abating, and it will take a deluge of snow or rain to restore critical moisture to farmland before spring planting of new crops, a climate expert said on Thursday.
"It's not a pretty picture," said climatologist Mark Svoboda of the University of Nebraska's Drought Mitigation Center.
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