High & dry

Climate | Record heat and a drought that won’t end are hurting livestock and lives | Jamie Dean

Paul Penner doesn't have to look at a crop to tell how it's faring. These days when the Kansas wheat farmer catches a whiff of a scorched cornfield that smells like curing hay he knows the crop's fate: It's already dying.

Penner didn't plant corn this year, but without it he has troubles enough of his own: His prairie hayfields have produced half their usual tonnage. Other farmers are worried about cotton and beans. Penner, secretary of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers, is one of thousands of U.S. farmers suffering painful losses on two counts: this summer's heat wave and a drought that just won't end.

Record-breaking temperatures have blistered regions across the country over the last few weeks:

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August 12, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 31

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