Last spring, my family and I moved from our 22-acre farm in western Massachusetts to the center of Brattleboro.

去年春天，我们全家离开了我们在麻省西部的一个22英亩的农场，搬到了Brattleboro镇的中心。

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There is only enough spring water to supply the needs of the houses, so we have to pump from the river for farm use.

泉水只能满足家庭生活用水，因此我们必须从河里抽水以用于农业生产。

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This spring, a federal science advisory report is expected to recommend a national goal of improving the efficiency of farm nitrogen fertilizer use by 25 percent, Herz and Galloway say.

今年春天，一份联邦科学建议报告有可能建议提高氮肥使用率提高25%的国家目标。赫兹和盖洛韦说。

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Jeff Scates, a farmer in Southern Illinois, said about 75% of his family's farm was underwater last spring, and he didn't finish planting his corn crop until early June.

WSJ: Midwest's Dry Spell Threatens to Intensify

And it was on one of those days that spring, on a trip to a farm in Chantilly, VA, that Frank Christopher took the photograph.

FORBES: The Photograph

With costs still outstripping returns he said a difference of even two pence per litre could allow the farm to survive until the spring, when the herd returns to pasture, lowering overheads.

BBC: Richard Downes