Tuesday, July 17, 2012

This could be the worst drought for our streams

"This wholesale rayban sunglasses could be the worst drought for our streams since we started keeping records a little over 100 years ago," he says. •Randy Miles, a soil scientist at the University of Missouri-Columbia, stuck a probe into a farm field on Monday and found no moisture more than 5 feet deep. In a normal year, he would expect only the top 12-16 inches to be dry. Current conditions, he says, mean that "crops won't thrive." The drought, Miles says, affects everything from earthworms, which must oakley sunglasses mens 2012 on sale 640 bore deeper to find moisture, to nutrients in the soil. •Kent Lorens, who raises livestock, wheat and corn on a 3,400-acre farm near Stratton, Neb., is giving his cows and calves protein supplements because the dry grass they're eating doesn't provide enough nutrition. They're drinking 20 or 30 gallons of water daily instead of the usual 10, he says. •At Honker Hill Winery near Carbondale, Ill., "Some of the plants are beginning to shed their leaves like they're dying. A lot of the grapes are drying up, too," says manager Stan South. Wine is still being made from last year's excellent crop, he says, but he thinks "it's very possibly time to invest in an irrigation system." •Salesman Mark Holzum says foot traffic at Heuer Sons Implement Co. in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is "a fourth of what it normally would be" as farmers scrap or postpone equipment purchases. "They're cheap oakley sunglasses clearance not in a good mood," he says.

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