LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The drought could cost you more at the grocery store.
Specialists at Purdue University say Indiana has already lost between 13 and 20 percent of its usual corn crop.
Most of the state already is in a moderate to extreme drought.
And it's not just the heat that makes things worse in the farm fields.
"The heat by itself, if we had adequate soil moisture, these days in the nineties or even the high nineties, yeah, they wouldn't be desirable. But they wouldn't be as detrimental. But when you combine that excessive heat with truly soil-moisture deficit soils, that's the killer combination."
Experts say Indiana is in the worst shape of any of the corn belt states.
They say, if rain doesn't come soon, this year may top the drought of 1988.
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