When you work on issues surrounding climate change, you have a tendency to start looking around for any information you can find to see if the dry weather we’re experiencing in the Southern Plains is driven by climate change or if it's to be expected.

Earlier this summer, an article in The Hutchinson News in Kansas raised a very important question for farmers to consider. 

The crisis facing the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains has hit the mainstream media. NBC News published a special report last weekend that may help the public gain a better understanding of the implications of the declining aquifer, which could lead to an agricultural and food-supply disaster.