Corn farmers begin mowing down fields as drought worsens in much of US; food prices could rise By David Pitt The Associated Press Posted July 11, 2012 8:04 am 4 min read ...

An aerial image of a field of corn is pictured in Abbotsford, British Columbia on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. (Ben Nelms/CBC) "We've had fires, we've had floods, we've had, you know, the heat dome.

The results are based on the USDA’s Prospective Plantings report. According to the map, corn fields cover around 29.7% of Illinois, just less than one-third of the state’s entire boundaries.

ST. LOUIS — There are more than 14 million acres of corn fields in Missouri and Illinois, and like other water-intensive plants, the crop has a large thirst to quench. Corn plants need one-and ...