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A dock extends into a dry cove where grass has begun to grow at Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, Ind. The reservoir is six feet below normal levels. / AP photo

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's addition of the 218 counties means that more than half of all U.S. counties — 1,584 in 32 states — have been designated primary disaster areas this growing season, the vast majority of them mired in a drought that's considered the worst in decades.

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