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 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - The wall calendar John Olsson uses to record key events on his farm reminds him of the last time a serious rain fell: the week at the end of April when he was planting his corn. Now, after weeks of dry heat, Olsson and other farmers in central Illinois say their corn could use a good shower or two. Olsson has about 650 acres of corn just west of Springfield, near the small town of New Berlin.
"It was a little on the wet side there right at planting," he recalled of the April showers. "Then it just cut off."
Since May 1, rainfall over much of Illinois has been measured in mere tenths of inches, leaving corn little moisture other than what's stored in the soil.
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