Agribusiness: Drought continues, but some crops do better

Recent rains helped some of the region?s crops, while others wait in vain for moisture that never came.
Northern Colorado is still firmly in the grip of a five-year-long drought, but the situation improves with every storm and every season that passes.
?The Colorado winter wheat crop projection is for 55 million bushels as of May 1 ? the first estimate of 2004,? said Darrell Hanavan, executive director of the Colorado Association of Wheat Growers and the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee. ?That is 33 percent below last year but 49 percent above 2002?s 36.3 million bushels.?
Hanavan said dry…