But this is the seventh year that drought has gripped this eastern Montana landscape - seven out of the last nine, and this one is by far the worst.

A savage drought gripped large swaths of the Horn of Africa this year, as it has virtually every other year for the past decade.

Exceptional drought gripped almost the entire state and groundwater, lake, and reservoir dropped to historic lows.

The worst drought in 60 years gripped more than 10 million people and led to the death of thousands of people and millions of animals in Somalia and the Horn of Africa.

Although a severe drought is gripping the farm belt, crop shortages apparently will not raise food prices enough to have a major effect on family budgets or the nation's inflation rate.