“Disaster,” — Agriculture analyst Peter Meyer’s assessment, written in a research note last Wednesday, after driving through uncharacteristically parched Midwestern farm country the day before. After traveling through Illinois, Mr. Meyer, who works for PIRA Energy Group, told the Wall Street Journal the crop was much smaller than the latest USDA estimate of 12.97 billion bushels: “There’s less than 11.5 billion bushels out here. How much less, I don’t know.”

Thousands of readers like you have made Northern New York Newspapers the number one ranked website* for local news and sports coverage in the north country.

You can continue on to this article in a few seconds, or you can visit one of our websites:

• Watertown Daily Times
• The Ogdensburg Journal
• Daily Courier-Observer