Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As winter turned to spring, Wendell Meekins planted his corn crop and prepared for the stalks to shoot up tall and green, just as ...

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As winter turned to spring, Wendell Meekins planted his corn crop and prepared for the stalks to shoot up tall and green, just as they always had. That didn’t happen. “The corn got up about maybe 2 ...