Thursday, May 31st, 2012
Photo by Mark Pummell/The Daily Standard

Corn fields such as this one north of Celina are thriving due to warm spring temperatures.

Related online story:
Tuesday's rainfall was one of those "million dollar rains," Mercer County Farm Service Agency director Chris Gibbs says.
The rain, ranging from 2.1 inches in some areas to 0.4 in others, followed on the heels of a hot, dry period with temperatures in the 90s. [More]
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