Many agricultural groups are encouraging the US EPA to revise the 2023 Waters of the U.S. rule, not to repeal and replace it. The agency is currently seeking stakeholder feedback as it works on key aspects of the definition of WOTUS. Garrett Hawkins, president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, says the state’s farmers have dealt…… Continue Reading

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures across the northern two-thirds of the country, while cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to Florida’s peninsula and an area stretching from southern California to the southern High Plains.  Meanwhile, near- or above-normal precipitation across the Deep South and from the Pacific…… Continue Reading

Additional showers and thunderstorms in Oklahoma and environs could aggravate flooding in areas already experiencing elevated river levels.  However, dry weather will briefly return across the southern Plains by week’s end, as showers and thunderstorms shift farther to the south and east.  The new focus for heavy rain may become the eastern U.S., starting during…… Continue Reading