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			<title><![CDATA[Rains drench Houston, cut power; Texas hasn't seen end of drought]]></title>
			
			

			
			
			
			<pubDate>2012-01-09 16:37:46</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rains drench Houston, cut power; Texas hasn't seen end of drought]]></title>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A million face severe malnutrition in the Sahel, UNICEF warns]]></title>
			
			

			
			
			
			<pubDate>2012-01-27 16:39:13</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A million face severe malnutrition in the Sahel, UNICEF warns]]></title>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Drought ends for Dallas-Fort Worth area; rest of Texas suffers]]></title>
			
			

			
			
			
			<pubDate>2012-02-02 16:40:27</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Drought ends for Dallas-Fort Worth area; rest of Texas suffers]]></title>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NM scientists develop drought-tolerant alfalfa]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-01-03 10:08:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[ ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) &mdash; With much of the Southwest struggling with drought, many ranchers and dairy farmers are having difficulty finding enough hay for their livestock and making tough choices: pay up to twice as much as last year and ship it...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Award honors green landscapes in La Ca&ntilde;ada]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/tn-gnp-0105-la-canada-valley-beautiful-cultivates-new-landscape-award,0,1429157.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-01-04 16:31:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After 50 years of honoring the town&rsquo;s most beautiful and lush landscaping, La Cañada Valley Beautiful has launched a new award to honor those yards that are green in more ways than one.

Each month the club will issue a Green Award to residents...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Low rainfall worries Pittsylvania County agriculture experts]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/wdbj7-low-rainfall-worries-pittsylvania-county-agriculture-experts-20120109,0,2085057.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-01-09 09:48:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We've all wished the rain to go away, but a group in Pittsylvania County says we need lots more.


A lack of rain last summer and a warm winter isn't producing enough water for farms in the region.

Rainfall totals for the beginning of this year fall...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[After dry January, rush is on to burn off thick brush]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-02-01 11:33:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We've all wished the rain to go away, but a group in Pittsylvania County says we need lots more.


A lack of rain last summer and a warm winter isn't producing enough water for farms in the region.

Rainfall totals for the beginning of this year fall...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Minnesota drought may persist through spring]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-02-02 06:44:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[ By Matt Peterson
 Austin Daily Herald, Minn.
 Feb. 01--Melting snow, sloppy roads and an unusually warm winter aren&rsquo;t telling the true story; much of Minnesota is in the midst of a severe drought.
 "It&rsquo;s just a totally different thing,"...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Roly-polys won't hurt jade plant]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-02-03 01:05:27</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[HORTISCOPE 

I have a jade plant that seems to be doing very well. I've had it for about four months. However, I am finding bugs in the dirt around the base of the plant. What are these light- to medium-brown insects that are less than an inch in length...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cattle inventory for Texas lowest since 1960]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-02-03 01:05:36</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Historic drought conditions took a toll on the Texas cow herd in 2011 as more than 150,000 head left the state for greener pastures - three times more than the 45,000 recorded in 2010, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Drought gave S.D.-headquartered CSS farms a boost]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-02-03 01:05:26</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WATERTOWN - The bag of chips in your pantry may have a Watertown connection to CSS Farms, a company that grows and provides chip potatoes to Frito-Lay. 

"We got in with Frito-Lay somewhat by accident," CSS President Milt Carter said. "We grew some chip...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rain brings drought relief to North Texas]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-02-03 08:55:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The rain has brought some much needed relief to North Texas.  Dallas/Fort Worth is the first metropolitan area in Texas to escape from one of the worst droughts in state history.

The dry weather brought lakes to dangerously low levels, and caused...]]></description>
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