Crop yields in recent dry years were less affected by drought than crops of the dust-bowl droughts of the 1930s, when there was less carbon dioxide.

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In the dry season, though, after the crop has been harvested, the trees shoot upwards and reach three metres in height in eight months.

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This year, he got his crop into the ground by late April, but dry conditions are now causing damage and reducing the number bushels his fields will produce.

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The recent decrease in rainfall has occurred during the country's dry season, and has thus affected only the second rice crop, which accounts for a fifth of the total in a normal year.

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As the hot and dry weather persists, farmers face potential losses in spite of federal crop insurance meant to soften the blow to U.S. agriculture.

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