Due to a recent drought, a farmer has lost quite a bit of soil on his fields because:

The soil dried out so that means that the soil will most likely turn to clumps of dirt or dust and won't be there anymore:)

hormones in blood stream

image: dtc.ucsf.edu

endocrine glands secrete hormones into the blood stream near them; the hormones then travel in our bloodstream until it reaches its destination, called a target cell, in distance parts of the body. in the target tissue, hormones lock onto the target’s plasma membrane, called the receptor site.