Hurricane Isaac Brings Some Relief to Corn Belt - NYTimes.com

WARRENTON, Mo. — All through the scorching summer, as their crops withered under cloudless skies, Corn Belt farmers waited and prayed for this moment. Now, courtesy of Hurricane Isaac, it has finally arrived: three days of rain to soak their parched fields and soften the cracked soil...Isaac’s rains may fortify younger soybean plants whose leaves are not already jaundiced, allowing the beans to plump up. It should help farmers sow winter wheat this month, and it should help revive the pastures where cattle have been grazing on nubs of dead grass.

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