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Business > Foreign Business
US Midwest farmers battle drought
By Agence France-Presse
Oct 24, 2022 12:22 am

NEW YORK: Months without rain have left farmers across the vast US Midwest, part of the country's essential 'breadbasket,' seeing crop yields in free fall, with some fields too damaged to harvest.

At the 4,000-acre (1,600-hectare) Tucker Farms in Venango, Nebraska, 'we were only able to harvest... around 500' acres, most of it wheat, said Rachel Tucker.

NO RAIN Rocks are exposed by retreating water along the banks of the Mississippi River on Oct. 18, 2022 near Marston, Missouri. Months without rain have left farmers across the vast US Midwest, part of the country’s essential ‘breadbasket,’ seeing crop yields in free fall, with some fields too damaged to harvest. AFP PHOTO

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