Corn Belt farmers see additional drought expansion

A climatologist says drought conditions continue to expand across the Corn Belt. “In contrast to all that we heard from the Southeast, we’ve gone completely the opposite way,” said Dennis Todey, director of USDA’s Midwest Climate Hub. Todey says the ongoing dryness should give farmers many consecutive days to harvest their crops. “We’re going to […]

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