Some farmers in drought-stricken Minnesota might compare catching a rain to winning the lottery.

Northwest Minnesota crop and livestock producer Shayne Isane says a promising spring gave way to hot and dry conditions this summer.

“We got off to a nice start. We had a good snowmelt (and) the crop came up out of the ground probably as nice as I’ve seen it in many years. And then we just ran out of water, and it got warmer than usual in June and we just could not catch those rains that we needed.”

In west central Minnesota, farmer Nathan Collins tells Brownfield the weather has been good.

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