RE: Severe drought N Illinois?
It is as dry as a bone in my area as well. In fact the corn and beans have not been this short since the droughts from nearly 15 years ago! We had corn that was honestly TWICE the heigth by the 4th of July! This will be a bad production year with the acreage yield being drastically down from any seasons past in many years. Many foodplots in the arae are yellow, wilted and dead and many alfalfa and clover fields have been cut for many, many weeks because of their lack of growth. Two of the creeks in my hunt area have dried up to small standing puddles in areas. It's not looking good but the deer seem to be weathering it very well and do not appear overly stressed..... yet! It could be a tough winter for them though with the redused harvest yields that are being predicted.