WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) delivered remarks during the Senate Committee on Appropriations hearing to review disaster funding needs.

“Drought is a damning circumstance in many places across the country and especially at home in Kansas,” said Sen. Moran. “79% of the acres in Kansas have been under some form of drought, most of it severe, for the year. We have reduced 45% of our wheat crop and we have not had a wheat crop this small since 1961 because we can’t grow a crop. You add that to all the other features of high input costs, low commodity prices and high interest rates, and the damage is real.”

“No disaster is anything easy to experience, and we have our share of other kinds of disasters in Kansas, most notably tornadoes,” continued Sen. Moran. “But drought is something that is so discouraging, so depressing. This is as dire a circumstance that I can see in my time in trying to address the saving of rural America. This is not something that we ought to consider unimportant. It is hugely important.”

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