(FILE PHOTO) In a July 27, 2011 photo, David Tucker, a part-time contract farm laborer at Rocking H Farm in Garfield, looks at a failed milo crop. Tucker planted 240 acres of milo, 220 acres of corn and 150 acres of cotton. All of the crops were a complete loss except for 140 acres of drought-damaged milo that produced about 10 percent of normal. The drought has spread over much of the southern U.S., leaving Oklahoma the driest it has been since the 1930s and setting records from Louisiana to New Mexico. But the situation is especially severe in Texas, which trails only California in agricultural productivity. (AP Photo/Austin American Statesman, Jay Jenner) AP MEMBER, ONLINE AND NEWSPAPERS ONLY MANDATORY CREDIT: NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO TV Photo: Jay Janner / Austin American-Statesman