Heat and drought devastated pastures and summer crops in a broad area covering the nation's heartland, including large sections of the Plains, Midwest, and mid-South. In the hardest-hit areas, July rainfall totaled less than 50 percent of normal-with a few locations receiving no measurable precipitation. Overall effects on major Midwestern row crops, including corn and soybeans, were comparable to those observed during the historic 1988 drought.
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