51.   After several years of terribly dry weather, El Nino rains have turned the desert into a plush, lush thing of beauty.

52.   After that, hot dry weather added stress to the plants, and the lack of moisture left smaller, lighter kernels.

53.   After trading, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued its second downgrade for corn and soybean crops this year, reflecting the recent dry weather.

54.   Brazil is in the middle of its dry season and should the dry weather last longer than usual, production next year could suffer, Weather Services Crop.

55.   Breezes from the northwest will cause dry weather to persist over most of the Northeast on Thursday.

56.   But after a weekend of only scattered showers, the expected dry weather threatens to damage crops, analysts said.

57.   But even before the dry weather, the economy was strangling from years of corruption and poor management.

58.   But harvest prospects for hard red winter wheat in the Central Plains are good because of continuing dry weather.

59.   But grasshoppers, he said, thrive in dry weather conditions, feeding off grass and anything else green.

60.   But if rain did not come Thursday night or early Friday, he said, dry weather would probably continue well into next week.