Alabama drought

Certain workers in Alabama’s farming industry are eligible for assistance to help recover losses from drought during the state’s recent agricultural year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency is now accepting applications for the Livestock Forage Disaster Program in 37 Alabama counties. This compensation is meant to help ease grazing losses due to drought on privately owned or cash leased land or fire on federally managed land.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Storms raked across the central United States from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes ahead of an arctic blast that forecasters say…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Parts of the drought-parched South are under flood watches and warnings with forecasters saying as much as 10 inches of rain could…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A fast-developing "flash drought" that threatened crops and helped spark wildfires across the South is showing the first real…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Weeks of dry, hot weather have plunged the Deep South further into a drought that's affecting more than 11 million people and…

The University of Alabama is leading a study on irrigation-fed farms in the Deep South. Less than 4 percent of Alabama’s farms are irrigation-fed, though…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A new assessment shows about 1 million people are being affected by drought in the Deep South, but conditions are improving…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Drought conditions are improving in Alabama, but conditions are still too dry for farmers in the southeastern corner of the…

State forestry officials are working to head off a rumor that Alabama is under a statewide burn ban.The Alabama Department of Environmental Management…