Wheat-growers in the Great Plains of the United States are set to collect record insurance payments for crops lost during the 2012 drought. The Department of Agriculture declared several counties natural disaster zones and has paid nearly $11 billion in indemnities to farmers whose wheat crops suffered last year.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/09/us-usda-drought-idUSBRE90812X20130109
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