Drought hitting where it hurts

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Alarm over a potential repeat of the 2008 food crisis escalated after data showed food prices jumped 6 percent last month and importers were snapping up a shriveled U.S. grain crop, helping drive prices to a new record. Ahead of a critical government report on the state of U.S. crops, which have been decimated by the worst drought in over five decades.



http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/10/us-drought-idUSBRE8781E320120810





http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
 
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