Tag Archives: drought 2012

• Agriculture / News

  Areas of extreme drought decreasing in Iowa and Illinois

  Recent rainfall is slowly helping to reduce the amount of land experiencing extreme drought in Iowa and Illinois.
• Agriculture / News / Weather

  Melons Love Our Hot Dry Weather

  As the hot dry weather causes more and more of our corn and soybeans to wither and wilt, the Midwest…
• Agriculture / Politics

  Loebsack renews call for Farm Bill after viewing drought damage

  It’s a long, hard walk for Rep. Dave Loebsack, (D) Iowa, and Muscatine County farmer Doug Nolte. “That is just…
• Agriculture / News

  Henry County corn chopping evidence of national drought disaster

  It’s a dramatic and devastating impact from the drought. Extreme weather is forcing some local farmers to give up on…
• Agriculture / News

  Drought worsens as disaster declarations increase

  New information released on Thursday suggests that the 2012 drought continues to expand. And it’s likely to worsen before it…
• Agriculture

  Hundreds more counties get disaster declarations from drought

  More Iowa and Illinois counties were declared disaster zones by the USDA because of the drought.
• News / Sports

  Heat fires up ASA Fast Pitch Championship in Moline

  Hot weather and softball seem to go together. That’s the case at the ASA Girls’ 12-and-under Fast Pitch National Championship…
• News

  QCA Water Usage on the Rise

  As our drought continues and hot weather refuses to leave water usage around our area is, just as you’d suspect,…
• Agriculture / News

  Drought Forces Livestock On To Conservation Lands

  As drought conditions continue their spread throughout the state, livestock farmers are starting to feel a real pinch.Entire pastures are…
• Agriculture / Weather

  Drought intensifies in Iowa and Illinois

  Areas of extreme drought dramatically increased in just one week in Iowa and Illinois.  The updated U.S. Drought Monitor released…
• News

  Carbon Cliff Conserves Water

  CARBON CLIFF – Residents are responding to a water conservation notice because of a water well that’s gotten below ‘normal’…
• News

  Celebration Belle stuck, passengers unloaded

  The Celebration Belle riverboat got stuck in mud off Campbell’s Island in Moline, Illinois  Wednesday night with its passengers stuck…