Article: Drought turns into harvest of hardship for Sooner farmers

BEAVER -- C.J. Rose squints beneath his sweat-stained cap and scans the sun-scorched wheat fields that support his family. What he sees scares him.

Dead tired and coated with dust, the lanky farmer-rancher has little to show for months of plowing and planting but a stretch of shriveled stalks of wheat embedded in crusty, parched earth.

"It's been like the dream you always had has come to an end in a cloud of dust," Rose says, his voice husky, his shoulders slumped in dejection. "What people don't understand is I can work all year as hard as I can and I'm not going to get paid for it."

Harvest has come to the Great Plains and fears of failure -- or even total collapse -- loom for thousands ...

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