Understanding Your Risk and Impacts

 News Articles Relating to Drought Impacts

 May 2008

Kentucky hay supplies very short
http://southeastfarmpress.com/news/hay-supply-0519/

Rice is Florida’s secret harvest
http://www.miamiherald.com/business_monday/story/537692.html

Everglades fire chokes South with smoke [Florida]
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20080520/NEWS/113563775/1034/news02&title=Everglades_fire_chokes_South_with_smoke

Wildfire season promises no mercy [Nevada]
http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080519/NEWS06/805190340/1002

Drought, coal costs raise TVA electricity bills
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/may/21/drought-coal-costs-raise-tva-electricity-bills/

Spring rains ease—but don’t end—drought in the Southeast [southeastern U.S.]
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iYOMIAzXREFVjcYtNagkheasCXwAD90PI3F03

Drought has some plowing up winter wheat [Montana]
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080522/NEWS01/80522025

Drought prompting some cattle sales [North Dakota]
http://www.kxmd.com/News/Dakota/241503.asp

W.Va. imports 6 million bees to replenish colonies
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/homepage/x996200368

Nurseries recoup drought losses by the wagon load [North Carolina]
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2940152/

Hawaii fears drought with low rainfall
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080527/NEWS12/805270352&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL

City’s Water Needs Threaten Oyster Culture [Georgia]
http://www.theledger.com/article/20080527/NEWS/805270398/1003/NEWS01

Drought helps state restore Lake O ecological balance [Florida]
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/west/epaper/2008/05/24/s1c_muck_0525.html

Southern Utah tortoise continues decline
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24842489/

Georgia Drought Squeezes Georgia Trout
http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=116389&catid=3

Southern water providers raise rates despite conservation [southeastern U.S.]
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=210305

Farmers, ranchers play guessing game [North Dakota]
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2008/05/31/news/local/156877.txt

Drought impacting salinity levels in Rookery Bay [Florida]
http://www.marconews.com/news/2008/may/31/drought-impacting-salinity-levels-rookery-bay/

Dry spring means water rationing -- which does not bode well for farmers [California]
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/286237.html