That way, he could ensure adequate irrigation water for his crops during the dry summer months.
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To break free of this unhappy equilibrium, farmers must set aside a portion of their land to grow cash crops in the dry season, when they fetch a high price.
Without irrigation, no crops would grow in the dry plains of south-western New South Wales, where the Murrumbidgee meets the Murray.
Dry land means lower yields, so those crops that struggle through should fetch a better price.
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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Then Lanworth knits in observations made at ground level by four pairs of people who travel the back roads of America taking notes on how far along crops are or how wet or dry the fields might be.
The dry conditions are already presenting challenges for those growing essential crops like wheat and means there is less grass for livestock, our correspondent added.
The effect is achieved by trickling seawater over porous cardboard screens -- called evaporators -- which cool and humidify the dry desert air, creating a favorable growing environment for crops.
As for a funeral, it was hot weather and the crops were in the ground and the roads were dry and the fair was over.
In the meantime, an exceptionally hot, dry summer has withered nearly three-quarters of this year's crops.
More dry-season water will greatly increase the production of rice and other crops.
He suggests that farmers trying to grow thirsty grain in dry northern and western parts of China should be persuaded to change their crops.
Drought gripped swathes of England at the beginning of the year as the country basked in an unusually warm, dry March, but the sunshine gave way to the wettest summer for 100 years, hitting crops, tourism and wildlife.
Scientists at the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) reckon it could affect 50m hectares and that some farmers could lose a third of their crops.
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