SHADOW CROP: Cornfields in the U.S. look healthy to the casual observer, but husks are pulled back on many stalks, the husks are empty. During the worst drought in a quarter century, many farmers are mowing down fields to use what is left for animal feed.

DEVASTATION SEWN WIDELY: Almost a third of the nation’s corn crop is already showing signs of damage. The U.S. Department of Agriculture just released yet another report predicting that farmers will get only a fraction of the corn anticipated last spring when they planted 96.4 million acres, the most since 1937.

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