But after six generations in Florida, he's not about to give up."We don't know how to fail. There's a reason here's an orange on our license plates."
"There isn't enough grass to eat and it's become too expensive to buy feed. We’ve had a large amount of culling this year because of drought," said David Anderson, a livestock specialist at Texas A&M University. "These events are getting more frequent," said Anderson. The state's experiencing more frequent severe droughts. And when the rains do come, they come differently than before, in intense bursts rather than over a longer period of time.
First an unseasonable freeze in the last week of February killed some of the fruit just as it was forming. Then the ongoing Western megadrought forced farmers to choose between which trees could get enough water to actually produce. "This year they're projecting less than four million bales, in an average year it's six million," he said."Cotton was planted, then it just didn't even come up. There was a whole lot of land that was simply plowed up because the seeds never germinated."
Like hot in the summer and cold in the winter
Seems like pretty normal weather to me.