Wheat crops in Texas being lost to drought

The worst drought in more than 40 years intensified across Texas during the last week, with high winds and heat causing "massive crop losses," with little relief in sight, weather experts said Thursday. A report released from a consortium of national climate experts, dubbed the Drought Monitor, said drought worsened along the Texas border with Oklahoma, and in western, central and southern Texas. Ranchers were struggling to feed and water cattle, and farmers were left to watch their crops shrivel into the dusty soil. Some experts estimated producers were giving up on as much as 70 per cent of the state's wheat acreage. "There are some scary things going on in Texas," said Brian Fuchs, climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, which released its weekly drought analysis Thursday morning...more