It’s made for glorious grilling and sunbathing weather, but the unusually dry start to June — the second-least rainy on record — has left crops withering in parched fields all across the region, a situation fast approaching the critical stage for anxious farmers. Read the rest at the Chicago Sun-Times…
BY STEFANO ESPOSITO, DAVID ROEDER, SUSAN DEMAR LAFFERTY AND TONY GRAF June 13, 2012