Dorian Sets Course Toward Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Florida August 27, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan and Will Wade Tropical Storm Dorian is expected to strengthen, potentially approaching hurricane status by the time it gets to Puerto Rico Wednesday,...
Edison to Face First Trial Over Woolsey Wildfire Claim in April August 16, 2019 By Erik Larson The first trial to determine if Edison International’s Southern California utility is liable for damages from the Woolsey wildfire that...
Farm Deluge Starts to Seep Into America’s Fragile Rural Economy June 24, 2019 From 100 feet up in the air, Indiana crop duster Robert Sneberger gets a better view than most of how...
Incessant Rain Puts U.S. Farmers on Insurance-Deadline Watch May 28, 2019 By Michael Hirtzer Kansas farmer Mark Nelson had until Saturday to plant his corn or lose the insurance that protects him from a...
Jet Stream Detour Leaves Midwest Farmers Drenched, Canadians Dried Out May 23, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan and Ashley Robinson North American farmers are stuck between a flood and a dry spot, and there is little immediate help ahead. Two...
More Storms in U.S. Midwest Where Planting Is Already Behind May 16, 2019 Any hopes of getting corn and soybean planting back on track in the U.S. may be washed away starting Friday...
Floods Stall Fertilizer Shipments in Latest Blow to U.S. Farmers April 25, 2019 By Karl Plume CHICAGO — Farm supplier CHS Inc has dozens of loaded barges trapped on the flood-swollen Mississippi River near St. Louis...
Wave of New Tech Firms Targeting Farms as Weather Wars Mount April 15, 2019 By Lydia Mulvany and Brian K. Sullivan When surprise hailstorms hit the 6,000 acres Trevor Scherman plants each year with peas, wheat, canola and lentils, his first...
U.S. Disaster Aid Won’t Cover Crops Drowned by Midwest Floods April 2, 2019 By Tom Polansek MALVERN, Iowa — The Black Hawk military helicopter flew over Iowa, giving a senior U.S. agriculture official and U.S. senator...
More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods April 1, 2019 By P.J. Huffstutter, Humeyra Pamuk 6 MIN READ CHICAGO/COLUMBUS, Neb. — At least 1 million acres of U.S. farmland were flooded after the “bomb cyclone” storm left wide...