APNewsBreak: Farmers avoiding fed loan program

WICHITA, Kan. — Extreme drought with­ered grain across the Great Plains. Flood­ing from the Mis­sis­sippi and Mis­souri rivers drowned corn and other crops from Nebraska to Louisiana. A trop­i­cal storm on the East Coast sub­merged Car­olina tobacco fields and New Jer­sey blue­berry bushes.