CornHarvest

05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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05 SEPTEMBER 2020 - STORY CITY, IOWA: A crew harvests corn on a farm near Story City, in Story County, Iowa. This year's corn harvest has been devastated by August's derecho wind storm that flattened millions of acres of Iowa corn fields, a drought that has left fields in the center of the state parched and desiccated. Farmers are also contending with a bad farm economy. Export sales are down because of trade problems with China, Iowa's largest foreign trade partner, and the ethanol industry has been crippled by cheap oil, which has lessened the need for ethanol. Some Iowa farmers are not expected to harvest their crop this year, instead plowing it under. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ