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Drought Crippling More Than Farmers in Colorado.
Byline: Kit Miniclier
May 13--EADS, Colo.--When a devastating drought wiped out 550,000 acres of Colorado winter wheat this spring, it hurt everyone from farmers to a wheat-hauling railroad to businesses on Main Street.
The latest grim predictions, released last week, show winter wheat losses at $79.1 million, compared with $43 million only a week earlier.
A visit to Kiowa County, a major wheat producer and the hardest hit in this year's drought, confirms that everyone from fertilizer suppliers to drugstores suffer when farmers don't have expendable income.
"We've just flat out quit spending money, that's it," said fourth-generation farmer Doug Uhland, whose farm is within sight of the farming community of Eads, about 40 miles northwest of Lamar.
"This is far more serious than people realize. It is probably hurting every business and little store within a 200-mile radius," Uhland said.
Darrell Hanavan, executive director of the Colorado Association…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Drought Crippling More Than Farmers in Colorado.
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