The Washington Post - 1/14/13, David Pitt
A boat sits on the ground in a dry section of the Morse Reservoir, one of three reservoirs which supply water to nearby Indianapolis, in Cicero, Indiana. Picture: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
DES MOINES — For farmers like Earl Williams, last year couldn’t have started out better, or ended much worse — as a warm, sunny spring that let him plant early gave way to record heat and drought that devastated his corn.
Williams ended up with about two-thirds of the crop he expected, and a U.S. Department of Agriculture report released Friday showed most corn farmers didn’t fare much better. The final report on the 2012 growing season showed farmers harvested 10.78 billion bushels of corn, less than three-fourths of what the agency predicted last spring.
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