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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Stephen Starr in Clark county, Ohio

Wildfires gripped Canada last year. Now, US farmers are feeling the burn

Aerial view of a corn field with tassels in summer in Nebraska.
Aerial view of a corn field with tassels in summer in Nebraska. Photograph: Wim Wiskerke/Alamy

It was early November and Scott Haerr still had 2,500 acres of corn to harvest on his farm in south-west Ohio.

The harvest should be much further down the road – a dry spring was followed by adequate summer rain and heat, and then a dry fall meant no obvious delays were in the forecast. But the crop, he said, just hadn’t ripened on cue.

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