Updated Photos

All photos from Sigel, IL area

Farmer raking his corn to round bale for hay.  Created his own personal dust cloud.

My backyard.  Several trees in our area are losing their leaves due to drought stress.

Our alfalfa field next to our farm.  Last harvested for hay the first week of June.

Three weeks ago, this was one of our best corn fields as it is located in a river bottom.  However, river bottoms provide poor, sandy soil, resulting in this corn drying up rather quickly when the moisture ran out.  Also, observe the trees browning in the background.

Green Creek and Henry Creek meet at this location and feed into the Little Wabash River.  These creeks and many rivers in our area have dried up entirely and turned into ATV highways.

The only soybeans that grew in this field, planted the second week of June.

Entire wooded area browning from moisture stress

Farmers leave strips in their field for insurance purposes.  Fields that lack strips, are owned by farmers who lack insurance.

A lone survivor.

If we do not receive rain tomorrow we'll end the month of July with 0.14in just shy of a local 100 year record.