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Special Report: Dry weather spreading

Jeff Caldwell Jeff Caldwell 01/11/2012 @ 2:41pm Multimedia Editor for Agriculture.com and Successful Farming magazine.

A quick look at a National Weather Service map showing the nation's percent of average precipitation since the beginning of this year reveals a trend that is beginning to stoke concerns of crop stress from the western and southwestern Plains to the eastern Corn Belt.

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