Report show corn, soybean crops declining slowly

Corn drought
This field of corn on the Kyle VanDyke farm near Leota in southwest Minnesota is already turning brown from the lack of rain.
MPR photo/Mark Steil

A report released this afternoon shows continued slow decline in Minnesota's corn and soybean crops because of dry weather. The harvests bring more than $10 billion annually into Minnesota's economy.

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