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This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, April 6, 2014, at 01:45 PM EDT shows distinct cloud cover across the Southeast U.S. into the Lower Mississippi Valley with rain and thunderstorms. Clouds are also present into the Middle Mississippi Valley becoming scattered in nature across portions of the western Ohio Valley. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)
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A near empty irrigation canal that provided water to the Savage's rice fields now, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Bay City. The Savages and other farmers are being forced to downsize their farming operation and change crops, from rice to dry land corn, due to a lack of irrigation water for the third consecutive year from the Colorado River. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)
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Kirby Savage holds a planted seed corn kernel in what was once a rice field, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Bay City. The Savages and other farmers are being forced to downsize their farming operation and change crops, from rice to dry land corn, due to a lack of irrigation water for the third consecutive year from the Colorado River. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)
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Harley Savage, left to right, and his sons Kirby and Stewart stand in a dry irrigation canal that once provided water to irrigate their rice fields, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Bay City. The Savages and other farmers are being forced to downsize their farming operation and change crops due to a lack of irrigation water for the third consecutive year from the Colorado River. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)
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Recently planted corn emerges from the ground of what was once a rice field, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Bay City. Matagorda County farmers are being forced to downsize their farming operation and change crops, from rice to dry land corn, due to a lack of irrigation water for the third consecutive year from the Colorado River. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)
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Stewart Savage, left, and his brother Kirby, right, sit with their father Harley in the Triangle Rice Farms office discussing the third consecutive year without irrigation water from the Colorado River for rice farmers in Matagorda County, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Bay City. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)
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John Elliott plants corn in what was once a rice field, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Bay City. "It's disheartening to lose your rice farming and your livelihood," Elliott said. "I hope we can survive this; we had to retool and spend over $250,000 to buy a planter, tractor and equipment." Matagorda County farmers are being forced to downsize their farming operation and change crops, from rice to dry land corn, due to a lack of irrigation water for the third consecutive year from the Colorado River. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)
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John Wikoff, left, watches as John Elliott plants corn in what was once a rice field, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Bay City. "It's disheartening to lose your rice farming and your livelihood," Elliott said. "I hope we can survive this; we had to retool and spend over $250,000 to buy a planter, tractor and equipment." Matagorda County farmers are being forced to downsize their farming operation and change crops, from rice to dry land corn, due to a lack of irrigation water for the third consecutive year from the Colorado River. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen/File)
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John Elliott plants corn in what was once a rice field, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Bay City. "It's disheartening to lose your rice farming and your livelihood," Elliott said. "I hope we can survive this; we had to retool and spend over $250,000 to buy a planter, tractor and equipment." Matagorda County farmers are being forced to downsize their farming operation and change crops, from rice to dry land corn, due to a lack of irrigation water for the third consecutive year from the Colorado River. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen)
