Estimating Drought 2000's cost on Georgia's agriculture and rural economy

What will the 2000 drought cost agriculture and what impact will it have on Georgia's fragile rural economies? These are hard questions to definitively answer until the crop production year is completed. However, to help get a perspective on these important questions, the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences' Center For Agribusiness and Economic Development has estimated drought costs on a county-by-county basis as of July, 2000.