It is impossible any longer to ignore the fact that our American west is drying and burning up. The drought has reached our farm in western Minnesota, where it is said we are several inches short on rainfall. This is an underestimate, I am sure, that fails to take into consideration the extreme heat and low humidity this spring and summer that have succeeded in sucking out what little moisture exists in the soil.
The crops do not grow. The weeds do, of course. It is difficult to impossible to operate a diversified organic row crop farm this year. We teeter on the edge of disaster.
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