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Jun 16, 2021 Trevor Burgess and Gary Hess first met during Pride Month and to mark their silver anniversary, they’re donating to groups and causes that have supported them over the years. “Weve built, together, two successful businesses in St. Petersburg and we decided we wanted to give back to our community,” Burgess explains. “So we picked 10 organizations, many that we have worked with before and some that are in special need right now, and decided that we would make 10 $25,000 gift...

As drought in the Western U.S. deepens, farmers are feeling the pain. Some are watching their crops fail, while others are selling cattle because they don't have the grass to feed it.

Farmers Are Feeling The Pain As Drought Spreads In The Northwest Nicole Bergs stunted wheat field is so short and sparse she doesnt think the combine can even reach the wheat without, as she puts it, eating rocks. "Combines dont like dirt and rocks," Berg says, standing amid the damaged rows. "They get indigestion." Berg is a dryland wheat farmer in the sweeping Horse Heaven Hills of southeastern Washington state. She shows off one head of half-turned golden wheat amid a sea of them. Besides ...

Its as dry as its been in a century in parts of Washington and Oregon. Some farmers are watching their crops fail, while others are selling cattle because they dont have the grass to feed it.

Farmers Are Feeling The Pain As Drought Spreads In The Northwest

It’s bone dry from Spokane, near the Washington-Idaho border, clear to Harney County in Southern Oregon, with triple digit temps on the way even later this week for some parts of the Northwest.

Wheat at the farm of Nicole Berg in Washingtons Horse Heaven Hills shows signs of a drought so far in 2021, with a damaged curled head. Credit: Anna King / NW News Network Somber harvest: Crops may fail, cattle sold as the NW descends into drought By Nicole Berg wades into her stunted wheat field. It’s so short and sparse, she doesn’t think the combine can even reach the wheat without eating rocks. “Combines don’t like dirt and rocks,” Berg says. “...

Nicole Berg wades into her stunted wheat field.  It’s so short and sparse, she doesn’t think the combine can even reach the wheat without eating rocks.  “Combines don’t like dirt and rocks,” Berg says. “They get indigestion.”  Berg is a dryland wheat farmer in the sweeping Horse Heaven Hills of south-eastern Washington. She shows off one head of half-turned golden wheat amid a sea of them. Besides being too short, the plant’s kernels didn’t fill out properly.  “See how t...

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State Sen. David G. Argall, R-29, has joined the growing list of Republican leaders calling on county Commissioner George Halcovage to resign.