Drought hits Corn Belt's farmers hard

[Tony Shubert] normally gets about 150 bushels of corn per acre, but this year he'll be happy to get a tenth of that, he told [Thomas Ewing], one of several Illinois congressmen touring drought-ravaged fields. Shubert's woes are repeated on farms from Kansas to Pennsylvania this summer as...

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Published inLas Vegas review-journal
Main Author Bill Vogrin AP
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Las Vegas, Nev Las Vegas Review - Journal 27.07.1991
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Ewing, Thomas Jr
Newman, James
Shubert, Tony
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Summary:[Tony Shubert] normally gets about 150 bushels of corn per acre, but this year he'll be happy to get a tenth of that, he told [Thomas Ewing], one of several Illinois congressmen touring drought-ravaged fields. Shubert's woes are repeated on farms from Kansas to Pennsylvania this summer as the Corn Belt sags under a stretch of hot, dry weather. Heat and lack of rain have left corn stalks barren in scorched fields and put soybean crops in danger as well. He estimates the drought has cut 700 million bushels from the anticipated corn harvest since the onset of the drought in June. Each week the drought continues, it cuts yields by an estimated 200 million bushels, he said.
ISSN:1097-1645