It’s now estimated 70% of the U.S. corn crop and 63% of soybeans across the U.S. are covered in drought. While the latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows drought expanded across Illinois and Indiana over ...

Extreme weather painted a starkly contrasting picture that added to drought in the High Plains, according to the U.S. Drought ...

ST. LOUIS — Even with rain in the forecast Saturday, drought conditions are expected to persist in Missouri and Illinois. One season of drought doesn't usually cause permanent damage, but repeated ...

Much of the Midwest and Great Plains is experiencing dry conditions, with some areas of moderate to severe drought highlighted in orange in this illustration of the U.S. Drought Monitor map released ...

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Dolf Ivener holds ears of corn in one of his fields in northwestern Iowa where rain has been spotty this summer. “You can see it's tipped back, which means it didn't fill all the way out, so it ran ...

Several more inches of snow are forecast in the Midwest this week. Next week, higher temperatures should melt some of the recent snow and ice. As it melts, that water will bleed into parched waterways ...

For the third year in a row, extreme drought conditions in the Midwest are drawing down water levels on the Mississippi River, raising prices for companies that transport goods downstream and forcing ...

Boats docked at the Riverside Park Marina south of downtown Memphis were cut off from the Mississippi River in November 2022. (Photo by Patrick Lantrip, Daily Memphian, courtesy of Investigate Midwest ...