Sentence examples for devastating farmers from inspiring English sources

The hot, dry weather in Texas is desiccating rivers and lakes, devastating farmers and ranchers, and driving wildfires that have burned up millions of acres.

Stock prices plunged and food prices dropped, devastating farmers for years.

Stock prices plunged and the price of food crops such as wheat and corn dropped severely, devastating farmers who did not recover for years afterward.

The US drought, which devastated farmers for years, is largely in the rearview, says Ken Morrison, editor of an online commodities newsletter, Morrison on the Markets.

By the time Mr. Obama appeared at the podium in Council Bluffs — just as the sun came out to lay waste to hopes here that maybe some rain would lessen the effects of the drought that has devastated farmers and ranchers here — Mr. Obama had seized the campaign attacks against Mr. Ryan's budget policies and was running with them.

Financial pressures, livestock disease, poor harvest, climate change, government policies and legislation can devastate farmers.

With no water for irrigation, the drought has been devastating for farmers.

Frost could destroy produce and devastate farmers "for another year," he said.

"The effect of that kind of ratio over 10 years is devastating," Mr. Farmer said.

"They used these sanctions, which devastated the farmers, to further enrich themselves, and now that this [Mohammad Javad] Zarif [the foreign minister leading talks with world powers] is trying to get the sanctions lifted, these bastards are trying to sabotage it!

This resulted in a famine that devastated the farmers and nomadic people, some of whom were entirely dependent on their cattle.