Farming has been a way of life since the beginning of civilization. Farmers have always faced many struggles, from keeping their crops safe from critters and pests to planning for natural disasters and weather. Technology has come a long way to help farmers deal with these kinds of problems. A problem that has yet to be fixed is drought. Droughts are one of the most devastating natural disasters encountered in agriculture. Drought forces farmers to work harder for less yield. Irrigation systems are being implemented to combat the dry conditions, but rain is still needed. Research is being done to find ways to create seeds that can deal with drought more efficiently, but it takes a very long time. Droughts are an important problem farmers face…show more content… In the article “Kansas Droughts: Climatic Trends Over 1,000 Years”, Anthony Layzell analyzes drought trends throughout the millennium in Kansas. Layzell starts by explaining that drought is an ongoing and devastating natural disaster. He states, “In any given year, drought conditions of some degree are occurring somewhere in North America” (1). Layzell explains that more broadly, we see that in North America alone, there is a type of drought happening every year. Drought is a problem faced at all times, globally. Drought is not a problem that has just sprung up or can be dealt with immediately, this is a problem that takes time to work out. In David Condos article about drought in Kansas history, he states, “And this year is the southwest Kansas City’s twelfth driest in history going back to the 1870s”. From this article, we get a glimpse of drought in a small area of the world in a relatively short amount of time. Drought has been affecting the areas where we live and around us for a long time. The problems that drought causes are not new, we just still don’t have a solution for…show more content… Drought is a big problem, but it is mainly a problem that farmers face. There is the possibility that drought does affect the food supply, but most of the time when one area of the world is facing drought, another is able to prosper and provide crops. There are also farmers who sell their crops as grain for animals, so this would not affect our food supply, but it would affect the farmer’s income. During times of drought, there will be farmers who suffer a loss of income. Davide Rodeziewicz discusses this in the journal “Drought Risk to the Agriculture Sector”. In this journal, Rodeziewicz writes “Panel B shows that an average wheat farmer with 2,500 acres in severe drought (D2) might expect losses of $46,000, or roughly 9 percent of production value.”(74). A farmer will have significant losses anytime there is a drought. The government has put in place an insurance plan to neutralize the loss that the farmers feel. Rodeziewicz wrote about this as well. He explains that while in some cases the insurance can be helpful, oftentimes it does very little for the farmer and the farmer will still feel the loss. This is an antiquated solution to
