Sentences with phrase «years drought year»

Exactly... xbox ppl are acting like 2018 is already shaping up to be better year than 2017 when they forget all these games were meant for last years drought year...

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Investors and hedge funds were freaked out last year when the price for Arabica beans shot through the roof, thanks to a drought in Brazil.

A summer drought stunted the growth of their soybeans and corn, so their yield will probably be half of last year's harvest.

MillerCoors» massive Fort Worth brewery taps 770 million gallons a year from the Trinity River Basin, where tensions among private landowners, municipalities and other stakeholders are rising amid a persistent drought.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Some of the largest brewers in the U.S. are trying to reduce their water - to - beer ratio as drought and wildfire threaten the watersheds where they draw billions of gallons every year.

Two years of extreme drought, during which farmers relied almost completely on groundwater, have brought the seriousness of the problem home.

According to the most recent federal forecast, about 48 % of the contiguous U.S. is now experiencing moderate to exceptional drought, down from a high of 60 % at the beginning of the year.

Here's what Lake Oroville, the body of water contained by the tallest dam in the US, looked like in August 2015, during the height of California's raging five - year drought:

It looks like next year might be a good time to cut the carbohydrates as a drought - fueled jump in wheat costs will make bakery goods the food items with the biggest price gains for U.S. consumers.

South Africa's maize crop was decimated with current forecasts pointing to a 26.6 percent lower harvest this year due to the severe drought.

And while he didn't promise to end Cleveland's 50 - year championship drought, James did, in dramatic style, lead the Cavaliers to overturn a 3 - 1 series deficit against the favored Golden State Warriors.

The Eagle Ford, extending from the Mexican border into East Texas, began to boom in 2011, just as Texas struggled with the worst one - year drought in its history.

After all the frenetic deal - making of the past few years, Canada's oilpatch is now finding itself in the grip of an unaccustomed drought of mergers and acquisitions.

The Weather Channel's Carl Parker reports on the worst drought in years, and the state of agriculture in the Midwest.

California's historic drought is in the middle of its fifth year.

That's not a pretty sight in California, which is currently in its fifth year of a historic drought and also happens to be home to lots of meat and dairy farms.

Namely, the price is rising fast, pushed along by last year's high feed costs, drought, and rapacious Asian demand.

The company stopped watering its lush lawns last year, and though the type of grass it planted is supposed to be drought - tolerant, the grass has browned in some areas.

If the spring and summer don't bring some wet relief, the U.S. might well face another year of very low yields after last year's summer drought — with the difference that global wheat, corn and soybean stocks this time around would already be depleted.

Heatwaves and drought mean that California's avocado production is expected to fall by 44 %, while disastrous flooding in Peru's avocado - growing south has also led to a downgrade in this year's crop forecast, according to the BBC.

The two IPOs are part of a recent trend of enterprise software companies going public after drought of several years.

It's a science - driven company focused on solving problems like world hunger and global warming with, for instance, drought - resistance seeds, which have been gaining market share from competitors but had to be developed over years.

«Malawi has shown progress in achieving macroeconomic stabilization following two years of drought, with a rebound in growth and inflation reduced to single...

The fires, which took place during a drought year and in the hillsides above the East San Francisco Bay city, killed 25 people and destroyed 2,843 homes and more than 430 apartments.

El Nino - fueled storms have brought some relief to drought - parched California this year, but the central and southern portions of the state, as well as the Sierra Nevada foothills in the north remain at high risk, according to experts.

But they also attribute the price fall to a seasonal rise in stock, after a drought of low listings earlier in the year.

I understand that drought conditions have also plagued Canada's Prairies in recent years.

Although cocoa prices scored the most impressive quarterly gain, with futures up 35 % on production issues in West Africa, soybeans were a standout as well, with futures up 9.8 % as a drought harmed crops in Argentina while years of bumper harvests in the United States were set to recede in 2018.

Reporter Kristen van Schie tells Sean Rameswaram how the three - year drought is drastically changing life for millions of Capetonians.

Investors said they wanted to avoid the essential problem of seasonal conditions such as drought wiping out an entire year's agricultural earnings.

Rural export earnings increased strongly over the year to mid 2004, as export volumes recovered from the trough associated with the drought.

This could result in higher rates for crop insurance, which could be detrimental to Oklahoma farmers as this farming season has already seen high levels of precipitation following a five - year drought.

Scattered thunderstorms in the Rockies and parts of the Southwest are doing little to ease the hardships caused by the severe drought, now going on almost three years in some states.

We've been in a drought in Texas for years now and I don't see it going away anytime soon.

According to ABARE's current forecasts, farm production is not expected to reach the high levels prevailing in the years immediately preceding the onset of the drought.

The fall in rural exports has been especially sharp, with the value of exports in the June quarter down by over 27 per cent on the level of a year ago, largely reflecting the effect of the drought.

The effect of the drought can also be seen in farm output, which fell by around one - third over the year to the March quarter, subtracting 1.1 percentage points from aggregate GDP growth.

Over the year, food prices rose by 4 1/2 per cent, with above - average price rises being recorded for a number of commodities affected by the drought.

These contrasts, however, are likely to diminish over the year ahead as the world economy recovers and the effects of the drought dissipate.

The impact of the weak world economy and the drought over the first half of 2003 are evident in the latest national accounts, which show that real GDP rose by 0.1 per cent in the June quarter and 2.0 per cent over the year (Table 10).

Weak growth in the world economy and the drought in Australia have seen export earnings decline over the past couple of years (Graph 44).

In drought years, farmers generally increase slaughter rates rather than incur the high costs of retaining stock.

Some experts argue that four years of drought in Syria helped contribute to its civil war.

In Kenya, for example, there's drought coupled with the after - effects of the post-election violence a year ago.

Food shortages and droughts result in millions of deaths each year.

It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.

And they wonder why the 5 year drought has come?

Afghanistan, already a desperately poor country, has had a four - year drought.

Environmental water policies that show greater concern for bait fish than for food production, combined with years of drought, have strangled area farmers to the point that much of the arable land is returning to its natural semi-arid state.

30 - 32, and had been going on for over 2000 years, from the 6th century, the sword, the whirlwinds, and droughts, has been upon this earth prophesied in Jeremiah 25.