Harvesting in a drought year | Video & Gallery

Crickets chirp a soundtrack to the setting sun. Lindsay Nobbs leaves a cloud of dust in his wake, driving a big red combine up and down a half-mile field of durum. The wheat is a foot high and sparse. In a normal year, it would be “roughly twice as high, and thick,” said the Lancer-area grain farmer. “You wouldn’t be able to see down the rows at all.”