US

The New Dust Bowl
Time Magazine, Sep 2, 2002

Cursed by a drought worse than the Okies saw at the height of the Great Depression, the West’s farmers are selling their cattle and leaving the plots to blow toward the Rockies. As harvest season arrives, grocery stores will raise prices ...So far this year, according to US Department of Agriculture, wheat production is down 14% from last year, and corn, soybean, and cotton production have also experienced big drops. Dave Friederickson, president of the National Farmers Union, says that the low harvest yield will almost certainly mean higher grocery-store prices ...