Rainfall helps ease some drought woes as harvests ramp up

ST. LOUIS — With hopes of a once-stellar corn crop dimmed by a summer of drought, Gerald Jenkins doesn’t expect the unfolding harvest to burden his co-op’s grain elevators, which are capable of storing 9 million bushels of the grain it buys from growers. Finding timely barges to ship it off may be another story.

By: Jim Suhr, The Associated Press