Go to the us drought monitor
There are too many, and you didn't provide a link to your favorite.
One that allow comparison for different dates - https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx
If you leave October 31, 2023 in left map and began to choose late october dates for other years on the right, you will find that US droughts in previous years was even larger than current one. Only October 29, 2019 looks significantly different. Comparing Oct 31 with Oct 24 2023 shows that drought is reducing.
As for droughts - there is water everywhere under the ground. Question only in depth. What is the problem to drill the well (wells, if farm is huge) to the water rich horizon and solve the problem with any possible drought for your farm? Are there some restrictions/regulations in USA that does not allow drilling for water on your private property? Or it is too expensive for farmer to rent a drilling brigade?
Of course, I barely could imagine a life of Texas farmer, with possibility to grow food all year around, but with lack of water. Here we have more than enough water, but only 5 months of non-freezing temperature and snow cover for at least 5 months a year. It is a problem. But we build greenhouses to grow food even when -30°C outside and heated pens for cattle. You see - every problem, even a huge one, have a solution. I can't believe that Texans who have a periodic droughts didn't find a reliable solution.
Go to the us drought monitor
There are too many, and you didn't provide a link to your favorite.
One that allow comparison for different dates - https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx
If you leave October 31, 2033 in left map and began to choose late october dates for other years on the right, you will find that US droughts in previous years was even larger than current one. Only October 29, 2019 looks significantly different. Comparing Oct 31 with Oct 24 2023 shows that drought is reducing.
As for droughts - there is water everywhere under the ground. Question only in depth. What is the problem to drill the well (wells, if farm is huge) to the water rich horizon and solve the problem with any possible drought for your farm? Are there some restrictions/regulations in USA that does not allow drilling for water on your private property? Or it is too expensive for farmer to rent a drilling brigade?
Of course, I barely could imagine a life of Texas farmer, with possibility to grow food all year around, but with lack of water. Here we have more than enough water, but only 5 months of non-freezing temperature and snow cover for at least 5 months a year. It is a problem. But we build greenhouses to grow food even when -30°C outside and heated pens for cattle. You see - every problem, even a huge one, have a solution. I can't believe that Texans who have a periodic droughts didn't find a reliable solution.
Go to the us drought monitor
There are too many, and you didn't provide a link to your favorite.
One that allow comparison for different dates - https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx
If you leave October 31, 2033 in left map and began to choose late october dates for other years, you will find that US droughts in previous years was larger than current one. Only October 29, 2019 looks significantly different. Comparing Oct 31 with Oct 24 2023 shows that drought is reducing.
As for droughts - there is water everywhere under the ground. Question only in depth. What is the problem to drill the well (wells, if farm is huge) to the water rich horizon and solve the problem with any possible drought for your farm? Are there some restrictions/regulations in USA that does not allow drilling for water on your private property? Or it is too expensive for farmer to rent a drilling brigade?
Of course, I barely could imagine a life of Texas farmer, with possibility to grow food all year around, but with lack of water. Here we have more than enough water, but only 5 months of non-freezing temperature and snow cover for at least 5 months a year. It is a problem. But we build greenhouses to grow food even when -30°C outside and heated pens for cattle. You see - every problem, even a huge one, have a solution. I can't believe that Texans who have a periodic droughts didn't find a reliable solution.