10% of Md. Farmers Face Ruin
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Estimates of crop losses in the Southeast’s worst drought in a century soared past $2 billion today and Maryland officials said 10% of that state’s farmers face ruin with no crops to pay off debts.
There “just isn’t any hope for a lot of farmers. . . . I advise them to quit while they’re ahead,” said Wayne A. Cawley Jr., Maryland’s secretary of agriculture.
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