How is the drought affecting Anderson County Kansas?

Wondering how the drought in Kansas is affecting pasture conditions in your area?

It has been a long dry year in most of Kansas but there is a difference between our usual late July hot spells and all out drought. You might not even think the Garnett area is in a drought. However, of the 105 counties in Kansas now 77 are in some type of drought watch. Some farmers in SW Kansas have not seen any negible rain for a year.

Anderson County has largely been left out of most of the drought warnings over the last few months since it sits in the Central East section of the Kansas agricultural districts and the far eastern parts of Kansas have fared much better with rain this year than the other 2/3 of the state.

However, this week Anderson County was added to the list of counties now approved for emergency haying and grazing.

It is tough for farmers and ranchers to make the decision to sell herds and there is some predictions that the selling off actually provides some boost to the tax revenuses as discussed in the Gardner News article.

Drought conditions for Kansas can be followed through the Kansas Water Office and many national news media outlets are covering the drought such as USA Today.

In McPhereson Kansas the Sentinel newspaper covered the drought conditions and cattle as well as many other news stories that have highlighted the dire situation for ranchers and cattle producers in the state of Kansas.

Drought conditions may end up ultimately changing the values for land if cattle produceres eventually have to go completely out of business. The production of the land in a drought state is also not worth as much per acre if the landowner needs to sell. If you would like local land value information for Anderson County and the Garnett area please contact us. You can also follow our Kansas Land News Podcast updates for current information on Kansas agricultural news.