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Article: Texas drought approaches era of Dust Bowl Farmers in nation's midsection face crop failures, financial ruin
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 26, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Levi Heath squats amid 150 acres of grain sorghum and runs a stalk
through his fingers with disgust. The leaves should be a lush
green, primed to bloom. Instead, their tips are a deadly brown.
"That's burning up," Heath said. "You work a year just to sit
and watch it do that. It makes me sick."
From Heath's South Texas farm to the wheat fields of Kansas, one
of the worst droughts of the 20th century is wilting both the crops
and spirits of farmers across the nation's midsection. Experts say
the dryness rivals that of the 1930s Dust Bowl in Texas, New Mexico,
Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma.
Farmers and ranchers face crop failures and financial ruin. And
the effects aren't confined to the ...