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Dry fall helps with harvest but not pastureland

October 13, 2017

Virginia topsoil moisture levels for the week ending Oct. 6 were approaching drought levels, with 73 percent of the state reporting short water supplies.

Agriculture Business, Drought, News

Summer weather patterns stress some crops

July 27, 2017

Extremely hot temperatures and only scattered showers are the formula for poor crops for some Virginia farmers every summer, and 2017 is shaping up to be more of the same.

Agriculture Business, Animals and Livestock, Crops, Drought, News, Soybeans

Mild winter could leave farmers high and dry this spring

March 30, 2017

A warm, dry winter already had affected many Virginia farmers this spring. The worst could be yet to come if the state does not get adequate rain, according to Jerry Stenger, director of the Virginia State Office of Climatology.

Agriculture Business, Drought, News

Southside, Southwest Va. see dry spell sinking in

December 1, 2016

As wildfires range across the Appalachian Mountains southwest of Virginia, Virginia farmers are keeping their own close watch on the weather.

Agriculture Business, Drought, News

Online map depicts worst drought for U.S. agriculture since 1988

August 10, 2012

While the central United States is experiencing its worst drought in decades, it wouldn’t be fair to compare it to droughts of the 1950s or the Dust Bowl years.

Agriculture Business, Drought

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