Significant hail damage hits corn and soybean fields in northwest and northcentral Iowa, ... (Photo by Gentry Sorenson, Iowa State University.) Fungicides for hail-damaged crops.

Cameron Sorgenfrey holds a tall corn stalk next to a short corn stalk along one of his fields, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) ...

Cameron Sorgenfrey holds a tall corn stalk next to a short corn stalk along one of his fields, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) ...

The original ‘Field of Dreams’ site in Dyersville, Iowa, was born from the imagination of author W.P. Kinsella. His novel “Shoeless Joe” introduced the world to Ray Kinsella, an Iowa ...

Cameron Sorgenfrey holds a tall corn stalk next to a short corn stalk along one of his fields, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) ...

WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly ...