This U.S. Drought Monitor continues to show improvement in drought-related conditions across multiple areas. The Midwest (Iowa and Minnesota), central and northern Plains (Kansas, Nebraska, Dakotas, ...

Parts of Mississippi and Alabama received more than 5 inches of rain. In the Plains and Midwest, much of the precipitation ...

ST. LOUIS | A weekly drought report shows that conditions have worsened in some key Midwest farming states where the corn harvest is more than halfway completed. The U.S. Drought Monitor map released ...

Indiana farmer Josh Boxell is in the middle of harvesting corn and soybeans. He says dry conditions mean his soybeans are maturing unevenly. Several states, including Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, ...

Monsanto headquarters on Lindbergh Boulevard. Monsanto Co., the world's biggest seed company, said it stands to gain from the worst U.S. Midwest drought in a decade because the difficult conditions ...

After one of the driest late summers in over a decade, last weekend’s rainfall finally brought some relief to rock-hard, dry Indiana soil. Many communities picked up between 0.5 and 1.5 inches of rain ...

Dead trees line the Salt Creek and Platte River near Mahoney State Park in June 2025. Horticulturists with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission were stumped when they started seeing significant ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - We’ve all felt the heat, and heard about the drought - but what’s it doing to our soil, plants and ecosystem? Well, that’s what an international group of researchers - ...