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Answer for the clue "Farmer's fear ", 6 letters:
drouth

Word definitions for drouth in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drouth \Drouth\, n. Same as Drought . --Sandys. Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn. --Bacon. One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. --Milton. In the dust and drouth of London life. --Tennyson.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of drought English)

Usage examples of drouth.

For thee I thirsted in the daily drouth, For thee I trembled in the nightly frost: Much sweeter thou than honey to My mouth: Why wilt thou still be lost?

Because of the bad drouth the last two years, things were in poor shape.

In between was grassland, brown now and parched from the drouth, with here and there a cultivated patch of corn or beans, or some other row crop.

In between was grassland, brown now and parched from the drouth, with here and there a cultivated patch of com or beans, or some other row crop.