An aerial view of farmland affected by the drought in northeastern Colorado in July 2012. Green circles show irrigated crops next to yellowed, dryland wheat fields. (Photo by Lance Cheung, USDA)2012 was a drought year for the record books. It was the warmest year ever recorded in Topeka, Columbia, Missouri and Des Moines, Iowa -- and the driest ever in Grand Island, Nebraska. The question is whether 2013 will be any different. With a crop in the ground, winter wheat farmers need things to change in a hurry. But as Harvest Public Media's Grant Gerlock reports, climatologists aren’t so sure that will happen.
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