Western Drought

NPR

Published April 8, 2001 at 11:00 PM CDT

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NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that farmers throughout the Pacific Northwest are bracing for a hot, dry summer. Rainfall is half of normal and many fear they could suffer devastating losses.

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