Press-Citizen: Given the choice between a drought or flooding, Johnson County farmer Russ Meade would take his chances with swampy fields any year.
Psychologically, a drought affects you a lot worse because youre seeing things slowly die, said Meade, who helps run his familys 720-acre corn, soybean and cattle farm near Tiffin.
The past two growing seasons, though, Meade has faced both extremes. Last summer, his crops wilted during the fifth-driest summer on record in Iowa. That was followed by the wettest...