The drought has sparked alarm among farmers and environmentalists across the country, who warn that food supplies may be impacted and wildfires may blight areas where they are not usually seen.
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While heavy rainfall in the South last week eased conditions in the Deep South and Texas, the U.S. Drought Monitor said that “drought conditions remained mostly unchanged across southeastern Alabama, Georgia and northwestern Florida, where soil moisture and streamflows remain extremely low.”
The drought is threatening to have a severe impact on major agricultural crops, from wheat farmers in Kansas to vegetable farmers in Georgia.
Virginia farmer Billy Bain, 81, told a local CBS News affiliate that this year, his 58th year planting crops, is the worst drought he has ever seen.
For wheat farmers across the Great Plains, those late April to early May weeks are critical as winter wheat begins to mature before the summer harvest. Yet, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecast that this year’s wheat acreage will be the lowest since 1919.
Those conditions could raise food prices for consumers, she added.
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"Florida has got one of the worst fire seasons in maybe the last 30 or 40 years, or it's turning out to be that way," Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson told CBS in late April.
In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency in 91 counties in late April as wildfires burned across the southeast of the state, allowing the state National Guard to respond to affected areas. The Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC) responded to zero new wildfires in the state on May 7—the first day with no new fires in the state since December 2025.
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