51.   Last year, soybean plantings swelled because heavy spring rains drowned corn crops.

52.   Last year, soybean plantings swelled after heavy spring rains drowned corn crops.

53.   Most farmers lost most of the corn crop because of the drought anyway, and they say this is a way to salvage some of that disaster.

54.   Most of the corn crop is past the stage at which dryness could alter yields.

55.   Most of the Peckman corn crop was growing, but some was drowned out.

56.   Nearly half the corn crop is planted, and soybean planting is just getting underway.

57.   Now it looks like many farmers will lose most of their corn crop and much of their sorghum crop.

58.   Prices were helped by signs of increased export business and speculation that a drought affecting the South African corn crop would send more business to the U.S.

59.   Rains would help stem any further drop in the corn crop and provide moisture for soybean pods to set and begin to fill, the key reproductive phase.

60.   Ranchers produced more animals in expectation of lower feed costs as the U.S. harvested a record soybean crop and the third-largest corn crop.