date:Jun 17, 2013
have grabbed the headlines away from the 2012 drought story. But the U.S. Drought Monitor map still shows plenty of territory counties across several states in the hot colors of brown and orange signifying very scarce rainfall especially western Kansas, the Oklahoma Panhandle and the Panhandle of Texas.
These are regions that expect to have drought conditions about one out of every two crop years. Farmers there often practice the summer fallow method of cultivation, taking a year off every few