Across the Corn Belt, cold weather follows Tuesday’s inclement weather, which included a band of late-season snow from the middle Mississippi Valley into the lower Great Lakes region. Official snowfall totals for April 20 reached 4.2 inches in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and 3.5 inches in Kansas City, Missouri. Freezes occurred Wednesday morning throughout the Midwest— a potential concern for fruit crops and winter wheat. On April 18, five percent of the wheat in Illinois had headed.
