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Show USDA will aid needy farmers several months in the North and spring planted crops yields have been seriously reduced. USDA will closely watch the effect of the weather on soil moisture supplies, which are critical to corn and soybeans as they enfer their reproduction periods. The USDA announced that it stands ready to aid farm -ers who live in heat and drought stricken areas and qualify for federal assists ance. Officials are concerned about the potential effects of heat waves on crops and livestock and is continuing to assess the situations. However How-ever aid is already in progress. prog-ress. Livestock owners whose normal feed production is cut at least 40 percent may receive re-ceive finncial assistance through the emergency livestock live-stock feed program. Farmers Farm-ers in more than 420 counties are being aided. Wheat, rice, and feed grain and cotton producers are suffering abnormally low yields. The latest cause of the r drought and high temperatures temp-eratures was a high pressure system which expanded in the past three weeks from the southwest across the Great Plains into the Southeastern Southeast-ern states. However, rain and fallingtemperatures last weekend brought relief to many hard hit areas. Rainfall Rain-fall was below normal for |