Farm Bureau Survey Shows the Impact of Drought on U.S. Agriculture

An AFBF survey shows that drought is hitting U.S. agriculture hard. Chad Smith has more on the impacts felt on the ground.



The American Farm Bureau Federation distributed a third drought impact survey in June to its members in 15 states across the Western U.S. Danny Munch, an economist with Farm Bureau, said the survey was distributed to state staff, county and state leadership, and farmer and rancher members. Munch says he survey included several demographic questions to distinguish state affiliation and had sections on crop specific factors, livestock factors and general water access. By the end, we received over 650 responses from the 15 states and then got a whole bunch of data on operational level changes that farmers and ranchers were doing to cope with drought.



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