‘Am I Out?’ Drought and Rising Costs From Iran War Deepen Pain for US Farmers
By Tom Polansek and Julie Ingwersen TULIA, Texas, May 20 (Reuters) – Scott Irlbeck crouched in a field of stunted wheat plants in a parched stretch of West Texas and slipped his hand into a crack wide enough to swallow it. Last autumn, Irlbeck planted a crop that barely grew because rain never came. He …