Feed corn that was destroyed from flooding following Tropical Storm Irene is seen in a field at Maple Downs Farms in Middleburgh, N.Y., on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
Mild weather help storm-battered farms
After being battered by flooding last year, farmers across the Northeast and Midwest can at least be thankful that a relatively warm and largely snowless winter has made it easier to get started healing their rutted and debris-strewn lands.
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