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By Michael Hirtzer CHENOA, Illinois (Reuters) - Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois. [More]

By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO (Reuters) - Drought worsened in the Midwest during the last week as record-high temperatures stressed the developing corn and soybean crops, while cotton and pastures eroded amid a historic drought in the southern Plains.