07/15/2025
CORN SWEAT! 🌽🌽 Higher dew points than Florida!
Dew points may be as high as the low 80s the next few days across Indiana! A lot of these high dew points are thanks to the corn belt of the United States! The top 5 corn producing states in the US include Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, & Indiana. Roughly 31.54% of the world's corn is grown in these states!
1 acre of corn can transpire 3,000-4,000 gallons of water per day through a process termed evapotranspiration! If you do the math, an Olympic sized swimming pool holds roughly 660,000 gallons of water. This would mean that on a good day, 165 acres of corn could transpire enough water to fill an olympic sized swimming pool in 24 hours (Assuming all 165 acres are transpireing 4,000 gallons)! That's a LOT of water!