Drought was one of the primary reasons why the crops failed (Amos 4:6). The Lord withheld rain from the land. The absence of spring rain would destroy the barley crops in May and the wheat in June.1 As a result of having no rain, people had to go from one city to the next in order to find water.
7 “I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;