Rod Berning's failed corn crop in Modoc, Kansas. Corn stalks should have grown roughly six feet tall by this time in July.

---

Even though he planted the entire field, Rod Berning said the drought prevented some parts of the field from sprouting at all on his farm in Modoc, Kansas.

---

Size: 4200px × 2788px
Location: Modoc, Kansas, USA
Photo credit: © Melanie Blanding / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: abandon, abandoned, activism, activists, agricultural, agriculture, baked, barren, blue, bone, brittle, brown, business, change, climate, cloud, cloudy, corn, cornfield, cornrow, cornstalk, crack, cracked, crop, crops, crust, dead, death, dehydrated, dirt, dried, drought, dry, dust, dying, earth, environment, environmental, extreme, farm, farmer, farmers, farming, farmland, field, global, government, green, growth, heat, hopeless, hot, husk, husks, issue, issues, kansas, lack, land, legislate, legislation, loss, lost, moisture, parched, rain, row, short, shortage, sky, soil, spell, stalk, states, stunted, subsidies, thirst, thirsty, underdeveloped, united, usa, warming, water, waterless, weather, wilted, wither, withered