Hot, Dry Weather Straining Corn And Soybean Crops

Agriculture experts say the record 92 million acres of corn that American farmers planted this year virtually guarantees a big crop, but the hot dry weather of the past weeks is sapping some of its potential.Corn expert Roger Elmore at Iowa State University, for instance, says a lot of that state's corn suffered through too much dry heat when it was developing. And in some places, drought and heat have been harsh.