Source: CAROLINA-VIRGINIA FARMER, 8/3/11

The Southern Plains continues to roast in a nine-month record-setting drought, with farmers reeling from cotton fields that have never even germinated. Inland along America's major waterways record flooding caused millions of acres of corn and rice to be lost or never even planted in an area that stretches from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico.

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