RACHEL MARTIN, host: Just a few hundred miles west of the Mississippi, in parts of Texas, rainy days are in short supply; so short that Governor Rick Perry issued a proclamation last month asking Texans to pray for rain.</s>RACHEL MARTIN, host: So far, that hasn't worked, and the drought's taking a toll on farmers like Curt Mowery. He grows grain sorghum, soybeans and corn on his farm near Rosharon, 50 miles south of Houston.</s>Mr. CURT MOWERY (Farmer): It's extremely tough. Most normal months, we should three to five inches of rain. We've missed out on that, and we've had anywhere from half-inch to zero rainfall for the past three months.</s>Mr. CURT MOWERY (Farmer): My dad has always talked about the drought of the '50s that we had in Texas. And generally, these droughts of these magnitudes, usually run in about 50-, 60-year cycles. So are we fixing to run into our drought cycle here in Texas like we did back in the '50s?</s>RACHEL MARTIN, host: That's tough to get your head around, especially when land is being flooded out next door in Louisiana.</s>Mr. CURT MOWERY (Farmer): It seems kind of odd that, you know, they're suffering the opposite end of the spectrum that I am, with too much water.</s>RACHEL MARTIN, host: That's farmer Curt Mowery in Rosharon, Texas.</s>RACHEL MARTIN, host: And this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
While flooding along the swollen Mississippi River continues to take its toll on Louisiana communities, farmers in neighboring Texas are reeling from a deepening drought. Texas grain farmer Curt Mowery talks about how he's dealing with the extremely dry conditions.