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Ryan Krenk, a farmer outside of Seward, Nebraska, and Jenny Rees, an extension educator with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, examine one of Krenk’s corn fields on July 11, 2023. Before the early July rainfall, all of Krenk’s corn was as short as the smallest plants in this patch.

217 Today: Drought made Midwest and Great Plains crops look ‘like death.’ Recent rains bring some hope

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