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It’s hot and dry out in western Kansas in a good year. South of Dodge City, the native grass is tough. So are the ranchers. But this year is not a good year.

This week on the show: Harvest Public Media’s Frank Morris follows the river to show the impact of this year’s drought.

This week, we’ll hear the final installment of Harvest Public Media’s Farmer of the Future series.

By Frank Morris

Thanks to high commodity prices and surging productivity, U.S. farmers earned a net income of nearly $98 billion last year — a record, according to the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute.