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Rain Rainy Clouds Above Countryside Rural Field Landscape With Young Green Wheat Sprouts In Spring Summer Cloudy Day. Heavy Clouds Above Agricultural Field. Young Wheat Shoots (Photo: Adobe Stock │ #480573809 - Great Brut Here)
Opinion, Weather Watch

November provided beneficial precipitation in the High Plains

The Drought Monitor showed continued spots of improvements by the end of the month in the Plains as moisture-soaked areas that were previously plagued by drought. Read More

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Ag News, Beef, Corn, Disaster, economy, Farm Bill, Lacey Vilhauer, Markets, Soybeans, Weather, Wheat

Senate introduces farm bill draft

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)
Drought, Drought Monitor, Water, Weather

Additional rain benefits High Plains



Webinar discusses drought conditions, outlook for rest of fall and winter 

Pivot irrigation system over a field in Caddo County near Hydro Oklahoma

Drought’s impact felt in Oklahoma ag

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Remnants of Helene miss the High Plains

E&H Farm in Wallace County, Kansas. (Photo courtesy of Heather Purvis.)

Guest workers keep farms going

USDA approves HB4 drought-tolerant wheat trait

Ice damage from 2020: An early-season ice storm cuts power to neighborhoods and communities in central and western Oklahoma in October 2020. (Photo by Todd Johnson, OSU Agriculture)

Have a plan for September’s National Preparedness Month

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Farm state senators urge Vilsack to improve drought response

Drought stressed cornstalks

USDA to offer aid to drought-impacted ag  producers in Kansas