Peanut Crop News Today

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Twawrt sources are the difference between a robust crop or a devastating loss in the fall. its the sound of relief, desperately needed water that mother nature is not bringing lately. >> last two years, our peanut crop has been a total loss. we harvested very few acres,s about,s about the been destroyed. >> reporter: with crops, drying up and baking from the deep south to the midwest, farmers are not just hoping for rain, but turning to technology. elton sharp can barely keep up with the demand....

Let up with either side determined to cling on. greg thank you, live from jerusalem. >> it has been a devastating summer for the nations farmers with extreme drought conditions destroying entire crop fields. now it seems some farmers are we thinking their water supply and turning to irrigation systems, instead. and now, live from atlanta with this curious information. >>reporter: yes, well, after season and season of low rainfall and scorching temperatures farmers are installing irrigation syste...

Will be well over 100 degrees. >> all right. maria molina. thanks very much. the irrigation industry seeing a boom in business as a result of the ongoing drought thats gripping much of the country. a sign of just how dire it is, in regions that grow most of the nations corn, soy beans, wheat and cotton, the lack of rain driving some desperate farmers to upgrade their equipment while others try irrigation for the first time. elizabeth has more from atlanta. elizabeth? >> hi, gregg, theres more to...

Police shot the insurgents. officials have recovered the bodies of the three remaining victims of the explosion in a kansas grain elevator. three others were also killed. the price of peanut butter is going up, some brands as much as 40%. the hot, dry summer devastated the peanut crop. a baby girl born this morning in the phillipines is being called the 7 billionth person in the world. its almost impossible to pinpoint the exact 7 billionth person. the united nations chose today to mark th...

strike. thousands of public employees say theyll walk off their jobs this week as parliament prepares to vote on yet another round of austerity measures. wrnss in yemens capital say government troops killed at least five people when they opened fire on pro democracy demonstrators. sundays violence left eight dead and more than 50 wounded. the surge in violence is blamed on al qaeda and the muslim brotherhood. a revolutionary forces commander was killed in sirte in the front line on...