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Monsoon helps ease drought in parts of Colorado, Southwest; but plains need more rain, snow

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07 Aug, 2014

Spring rains and summer monsoon storms have greened up the grass on the prairie there and raised the spirits of farmers, who have been spraying herbicides on fields in hopes of expanding this fall’s planting of winter wheat, said Wilma Trujillo, an agronomist for the Colorado State University extension service based in Lamar, Colorado.

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