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June 25th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

Corn farmers’ hopes are dashed by the flood (AP)

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Bill Talsma walks across one of his flood damaged corn fields, Saturday, June 21, 2008, near Colfax, Iowa.  Flooding destroyed nearly a quarter of the crop Talsma and his brother were growing on 9,000 acres in central Iowa, and soaking rains damaged the rest. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)AP - This year’s corn crop was Bill Talsma’s lottery ticket — a potentially record-setting haul worth millions.


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