Corn sweat, Michigan
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Corn is "sweating" just like us during this heat wave, releasing up to 4,000 gallons of moisture per acre each day. Farmers, like Jeff Knickerbocker of Knickerbocker Farms, warn that
It’s not that corn sweats more than other plants — an acre releases less moisture on average than, say, a large oak tree — but the Midwest has a lot of corn in late July. In Iowa, for example, more than two-thirds of the area is farmland, and corn is the top crop (followed by soybeans, which, by the way, also sweat).
All of us have seen corn growing around Michiana and the Midwest, but does it affect our weather?Heat and humidity are something we commonly associate with corn