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Greg Broadbent plants corn in a field, Monday, May 5, 2014, near De Soto, Iowa. Despite getting a late start to planting, farmers are optimistic they’ll get their crops planted during the optimum period. Due to rain and cold, it will just be toward the mid to later part of that period. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Iowa, Nebraska farmers say corn planting on track

By KOURTNEY LIEPELT - Associated Press

A pond that was dry during last year's drought is full again near Sprague, Neb., on Thursday, April 25, 2013. Farmers who have spent the past several months staring at parched fields have a new problem: mud. A rainy spring has brought weeks of rains to the middle of the country, and while it hasn't completely ended the historic drought, new forecasts show it surely has helped. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Drought eases in many places; fields turn to mud

By David Pitt - Associated Press